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...bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...
Despite such assurance, aviation circles put a good part of the blame for the slowdown on politics. The program remains a prime target for a vociferous and growing minority. "A toy for the international jet set," Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called it in a Senate speech last fall. In his budget for the fiscal year starting next July, President Johnson has already trimmed his request for SST funds to $223 million, an $80.6 million increase from fiscal 1968 but only half of the boost that the Administration proposed last summer. Slowing development further would mollify congressional economizers by permitting additional...
...worry when your 2-year-old pulls another's hair, and your 4-year-old plays with a toy pistol? ... There's no question that our civilized life couldn't last at all if people didn't learn to control their violent feelings...
...girdles at discount prices, the new complex will be the latest of 30 White Front stores that Interstate has strung through California. It will also be the showplace of a fast-growing nationwide retailing chain that now numbers 114 stores, including Topps stores through the East and Midwest and toy-selling Children's Supermart stores in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, as well as 31 conventional department stores in 12 states...
...obsession. For Manhattan Art Dealer Sidney Janis, it began with hoarding marbles during his boyhood in Buffalo, and led to a perceptive collection of 20th century art. For Anne Kinsolving Brown, daughter of a Baltimore minister, the impetus came from a book on soldiers that she spied in a toy store at the age of nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave new world of dashing soldiers, and over the years she has amassed the nation's out standing private collection...