Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pedal car, or PPV (for people-powered vehicle), is a three wheeled adult version of the toy pedal-powered fire truck common to children. It is six and one-half feet long, comes equipped with a three-speed transmission and has two adjustable bucket seats...
Enthusiastic as ever about the design, Kline and Fogleman would like to license manufacturing rights, possibly to an aircraft company. They are also considering mass-producing the paper wing as a toy. Whatever use they finally make of it, Kline's creation has already achieved a distinction: it was recently granted U.S. patent No. 3,706,430, perhaps the only one ever derived from a paper airplane...
...Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year-old repeated a few days later as his slain father's body passed by him. Cecil also caught the marvelous sequence that weekend of President Kennedy sitting in the sun reading the paper as Caroline's inquisitive...
...keep his popular backing, Bhutto must get Pakistan's 90,000 P.O.W.s back from India, which hinges on his recognition of Bangladesh. Last week three young Pakistanis burst into the London offices of the Indian High Commission armed with swords, acid spray and toy guns. They took eight staff members hostage, apparently to draw attention to the P.O.W. issue. British police, thinking the guns were real, killed two youths, Basharat Hussain and Mohammed Hanif Hussain, both 19, and captured the third, a 15-year...
...that grounding in a discipline was an integral and necessary part of an undergraduate's education. In the same debate Bok questioned the practicality of giving college students a secure and sweeping acquaintance with Western Civilization in four years. In this report he has again shown his readiness to toy with the common twofold definition of a College education...