Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toy Car. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, Defense Minister in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet, has always inspired bitter antagonism from opponents both in and out of India. Abusive, rude and overbearing, Menon, 64, is a Western-educated intellectual who despises the West, a passionate foe of old-time colonialism who consistently dismisses or ignores the new-style Communist imperialism. Nehru values Menon highly as a friend, confidant and traveling apostle. He admires his provocative intelligence, uses him as a shock absorber to take attacks that might otherwise be directed at him or his government. "Menon is like...
This time Nehru cannot just rewind his toy to get him past his election battle. As Defense Minister, Menon bears a large part of the responsibility for Red China's successful incursions along India's northern frontier-the hottest issue in the campaign. He also stands for the doctrinaire left-wing socialism that has come increasingly under attack by conservatives...
Meanwhile, down in the far recesses of the store basement, empty Coke bottles continue to pile up. The count now stands at 150 cases. As soon as they save enough, the brothers plan to send them in with their 6,969 boxtops and get a toy submarine...
...participants wind up enthusiastic about the program, contend that the only critics are uncooperative types who so cherish their emotional privacy that they refuse to enter into the spirit of the thing. Somewhere in the middle stands Vice President Robert Mitchell of Mattel, Inc., a fast-growing Los Angeles toy company that encourages its executives to sign on for Sensitivity Training. Arguing that only Sensitivity Training provides "the emotional kick in the guts" necessary to make an executive recognize his personality weaknesses, Mattel says: "I have seen a third of the people we have sent come back with remarkable changes...
...bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J. S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (dam' fine fellahs, too) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...