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...whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards all three contestants a crown, proving the royal dictum: "What you can do is more important than what you look like," wisdom that applies all the way up the food chain...
...Dallas for U.S. manufacturer Selchow & Righter: "I have been in this business 30 years, and Trivial Pursuit is the biggest individual game I have ever had. It defies everything we've had before." F.A.O. Schwarz Manager Walter Reid predicts that will be "a long term fad, not like Rubik's Cube. which wore off after nine months...
...China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...
...austere life-style for so long that their desire for such items is hardly a surprise. Yet if Deng Xiaoping is to succeed in his Four Modernizations, he may have to suppress consumerism. The task of industrial progress will require that China's limited exchange be spent wisely. Rubik's Cubes, and similar products, may be the wrench in the cogs of China's revitalization...
...book says nothing about sex, exercise or cats. It does not tell readers how to solve Rubik's Cube, make a million dollars in real estate, or shed 20 Ibs. in ten days. Instead it deals with the mundane world of corporate management, and its authors, two business consultants, never expected to join James Michener and Jane Fonda on the bestseller lists...