Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore at the President for refusing to knuckle under on steel prices. It's a conspiracy, you can be sure of that...
...before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon the royal equestrians. At the Ascot riding show, Princess Anne, 11, trying a bit too hard to please the judge, Queen Elizabeth, lost...
...Orbiteer as a trade premium through gas stations for $1.49 (regular price: about $2.50). Standard unloaded 90,000 in Southern California the first week. A marketing firm retained by Knox Instruments estimates a U.S. market of 25 million the first year, and negotiations are under way to sell the toy in Canada, Bermuda, Mexico, England and Belgium. Look...
...band of Puerto Ricans shot up the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954. After years of plotting strategy for others, Staebler can hardly wait to get out on the hustings against Bentley. Says a friend: "Neil is as excited about running for office as a child with a new toy...
Walter Keer, of the Herald Tribune, found it "an anti-feminist demonstration scored for in bugles, toy drums, and kazoos." He thought Kopit "slavishly indebted to his predecessors in the Theatre of the Absurd," but said he "is easily articulate, sometimes graceful even, and the mists that drift by have a way of taking what may be their most natural and frightening bodily shape." Kerr was ecstatic about the performers...