Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked at), not just given." This week's book section contains a somewhat caustic roundup of recent children's books. Our survey of children's records in the Dec. 1 issue was more cheerful: it found and recommended "more than a few moments of genuine magic on microgroove...
...been apparent for a long time: Panch Shila's use as the guiding force in India's China policy is, as the Indian Express put it, "dead as the dodo." Not dead but severely damaged was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's claim to a special neutralist magic in his dealings with Communism...
...teen market with a variety of advanced do-it-yourself kits (analogue computer, transistor radio, electricity lab). Two big sellers are Ohio Art's Magnastiks, a construction toy that utilizes a magnetic field, and Etch A Sketch, an updated and challenging version of the old magic slate idea...
Mechanical Quality. Lubin's shop is an automated showplace in suburban Chicago where cakes seem to shoot off the assembly line by magic. Sara Lee is the nation's biggest commercial user of cream cheese, fresh bananas and butter, which Lubin fanatically insists must always be 93-score AA-the best grade produced. Pumped or carted from huge storage areas, these ingredients are squeezed and squirted into an endless line of aluminum foil pans that winds through an oven at the rate of 2,400 an hour and finally out to the shipping room. But Lubin...
...know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter, a magic peach big enough to house a boy and a whole bestiary, is perhaps on the squashy side...