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...I.R.A. hoped that Paisley's "day of action" would help to split the Protestants and lead to a British withdrawal frum Ulster. Meanwhile, the I.R.A. continued to bomb in Britain. A toy gun left on the sidewalk in front of military barracks in London exploded, injuring two women. Said Social Democratic and Labor Party Deputy Leader Seamus Mallon, expressing the growing fears in Ulster and elsewhere with such continuing violence: "Paisley and the Provos are simply feeding on each other...
Rubik also has come out with Son of Cube, a three-dimensional twister called the Magic Snake, which can assume the shape of a swan, saxophone or steamroller. F.A.O. Schwarz, New York City's premier toy store, sold out its initial shipment of 864 Snakes in a week. Copy-cubers have devised multicolored variations of Rubik's baffler in the shape of pyramids, octagons and cylinders. A new puzzle marketed in France called the Tower of Babel has sold 600,000 copies in three months at a price of about...
Inevitably, the popularity of Rubik's Cube has encouraged rip-offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...anywhere from $32 million to $57 million as producer, director, co-author and star of a 3-hr. 20-min. movie about a nearly forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history, you can help steer it into a new age. With Reds Beatty says: I'm not just a movie star, a minimogul, a hot gossip item...
...live-in friend, combines the charm of Sally Field with the comic timing of Soupy Sales-and somehow looks like both. Together they demonstrate that even treacle pudding can pack some savor. Only Kaleena Kiff, 7, is a problem. She is not unbearable; she is not a toy saint; she is just not there. Perhaps it is unfair to ask a child to carry the weight of a sitcom-unless he weighs 200 Ibs., like the newborn creature played by Jonathan Winters on Mork and Mindy (ABC, Thursdays...