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...field is real only in the imaginations of the 15 men-one wearing a peace button-who surround it. In fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody...
...pretty nutty," acknowledges John Tunstill, publisher of Miniature Warfare and president of the London War Games Society. "Most people think we're a bunch of old eccentrics pushing toys around, but it's like chess in a way." The devotees follow the art in publications like Tun-still's, sport their own society ties, and patronize specialized stores such as London's Tradition Shop or The Soldier Shop in Manhattan. Some concentrate on exquisitely detailed toy warriors, others on arcane tactical research...
...Stockton, bought a long, narrow 51 acre strip of land running between the shore and the coastal highway south of Santa Barbara, and started to work on his town. He built a roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over it all in a red suit and white beard, ho-hoing and passing out free candy...
Molten Lead. In keeping with the benign attitude that characterizes the approach of many Government regulatory programs, and because the Toy Safety Act is ambiguous as to enforcement, the FDA has chosen to ignore the law's emergency provision. That provision could be used to end the sale of an item before a hearing. As it stands, even the four toys already cited will probably be around as long as retailers' stocks last-almost surely well past Christmas...
...groups want the four cited toys off the shelves by Christmas, as well as five additional toys that FDA refuses to take action on. Included are two poorly insulated stoves that reach temperatures of up to 600 degrees, a metal-casting set that can ignite paper or dangling sleeves, a crib mobile that can shatter in a baby's face, and a mechanical drawing toy with an easily breakable glass cover. Though makers of all five toys say that they have corrected the faults, Kaplan contends that stores are still selling the unimproved versions. "Toy models often have...