Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Light, just light, making everything below it a toy world...
Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan...
...Your article on the New Genetics is by far the foulest thing I have ever read. That these "scientists" should toy with problems of such universal and profound significance shows only that our educational system is an abominable failure, turning out unnatural, immoral and monstrous specimens of humanity. Are these creatures now to change our lives in the name of science...
...101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards and medals: Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts. Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs. They carried squirt guns, cap pistols, toy rifles made by Mattel...
McMillan has willingly weathered the ostracism. "He'd give Job stiff competition for patience," says his secretary. With characteristic good humor, he prizes a battery-run toy school bus given him by a fellow judge and periodically zooms it around his office carpet. (The toy manufacturer provided the bus with white student passengers only.) "A judge would ordinarily like to decide cases to suit his neighbors," McMillan admits. But in this case, he could...