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...dedicate and tour. Outside, she stooped to talk with young patients, all seriously ill, some with limbs amputated. When she reached to shake one boy's hand, for a terrible moment it seemed as if it had come off; the limb turned out to be a china toy, and the imperturbable Queen passed it to one of her ladies in waiting and continued chatting...
...rental-car company, and National, No. 3, have been "dragged kicking and screaming," as Olson puts it, into a gigantic giveaway game started by No. 2, Avis, last September. The giants of the rental-car business are courting customers with a growing array of gifts, from toy koala bears to vacations at resort hotels. This costly contest comes at a time when the industry's profits, pounded by a recession that has cut into travel budgets, have plunged from more than $250 million in 1979 to less than $50 million last year...
...widespread. Many of its officers are not above currying favor with their superiors and sometimes compound their mistakes by trying to cover them up. According to Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, this most secretive of organizations has had its share of minor security lapses. An angry old woman searching for a toy store located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished group of guests who had come to confer with the KGB chief discovered on leaving his office that all their elegant...
...mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss off mature, insightful analyses of Browning and Dickens, marred primarily by their inaccurate quotes (he was too lazy to look up the original passages...
...Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line of Monroe-inspired blouses, sweaters and tight pants. Says Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein: "The '50s are a source of inspiration to young people. Kids think...