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Many of the new breaking products are intended to make the acrobatics easier on the knees and skull. Most break dancers do their gyrations on cardboard retrieved from supermarket dumpsters or on sheets of linoleum. Early in September, though, a California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will...
...hand clutched the decapitated body of a Barbie-like doll. In the cellophane-Easter-grass-filled lunchbox lay the head of the doll. Around the base, toy soldiers battled a never-ending...
...that all cars sold in this country contain a specified minimum percentage of U.S.-made parts. By opposing the movement of manufacturing functions to lower-wage countries, the union is fighting a rearguard action. It is the same battle that has already been lost by workers in the textile, toy, photographic, radio and television, shoe and other industries. The efforts of the autoworkers do not seem to have much greater chance of success...
...allowance is only 50? a week, what is a seven-year-old to do when he wants a $20 toy or a $ 125 toy? Well, he can always walk into the store and say, "Charge it." Buffums, a Southern California department-store chain with 15 outlets, now offers children's charge accounts. The store requires no minimum age or source of income. The precocious applicant need only find a parent or guardian with a good credit rating to co-sign the application and guarantee any debts. The Buffums card is identical to ones the store issues to adults...
...with the times. The Christmas catalog published in 1933 fitted the Depression era by stressing bargains, though it betrayed a few aspirations for better times. "Merry Christmas to mother-an electrical appliance that saves labor" was a $2.39 automatic iron. Daughters could help out with a 22-piece deluxe toy laundry set with scrubboard and heavy metal washtub for $1.98. Somewhat more in the Christmas spirit were 2-Ib. fruitcakes for 49?, Tinkertoys at 69?, canaries for $2.95 and a Kodak camera...