Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from eight, for California, to 37 for New York). But Aurora's Model Motoring sets, ranging from $20 to $50 (individual cars are $1.98 or $2.49), are only one of 13 different lines of miniature electric racing cars that already constitute a $25 million business in hobby shops, toy shops and sporting-goods dealers across the U.S. From fairly simple tracks, they are developing into complex courses that tax the driving ability of both adolescents and adults...
...avers a curmudgeonly colleague from Britain, "your plan is completelah lunatic. I know Africah. Neithah you nor your toy would lahst five minutes...
...that James is a professional, he lives by spartan rule. He is first to rise in his family, plays quietly with his toy cars until the others are awake. He practices deep into the morning, then plays with his three-year-old brother until afternoon, when he invariably demands another practice session. James's love for the drums has left him altogether drummy. When asked his name, he soberly replies: "I'm Gene Krooper...
...keep the omnipresent photographers at a distance. "We have never failed." trumpeted the leader of the long-lensed paparazzi pack; and Jackie graciously consented to pose, hoping they would take it a little easier in the future. As the picture-snappers closed in, Caroline snapped right back with a toy camera -from the shutter popped a juicy red tongue emitting an unmistakable Bronx cheer...
...Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records for the rest of the day." Arthur "hated it" but he also learned: "I mastered every [Lionel] Hampton...