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...traditional Christmas splurge presents, everything from cameras to catcher's mitts, are hardly moving at all. Sales have stagnated for photographic equipment and hardware items. Toy sales in general have been weak this year. Concedes Douglas Thomson, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America, which represents about 90% of the industry: "Toys are the last thing to get hit at Christmas because parents take the attitude that kids should get a toy no matter what. Yet most toymakers now feel that they'll be doing well if they can simply break even with last year...
...closer to Chinese rural life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, calls "the languid strength of a bamboo or willow--flexible though tough at the core." It is the toughness that Zhao shows today, as he shakes his head and sighs, "Nothing can get me scared...
Others suggested more moderate ac- tions, and James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said that further economic sanctions on the Soviet Union could create severe hardships on the Soviet people. "But the security of the Eastern Bloc is more important than other concerns," Thomson added...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and Director of the CFIA yesterday called Cooper, who has been in the State Department since 1977, a "major addition to the center in international affairs issues." The top choice of a panel of "experts" consulted about the appointment, Cooper has a "broad range of interests" which make him ideal for the chair, he added...
Businessmen seem willing to grant Reagan ample time to get his program in place. Says Crocker National Bank Economist Thomas Thomson: "The economic levers available to a President aren't that good any more, and the short lead times of the '60s just don't work. Things aren't going to be a helluva lot better in the first part...