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...papers waxed indignant over the state of the Soviet toy industry. "Toys are serious business," bellowed Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Tanks, armored cars, planes and armored trains, rifles and Tommy guns have almost disappeared," the paper said. The blame for this lamentable situation was laid to Nikita Khrushchev, who allegedly did not want to encourage warlike feelings among children. Pravda, on the other hand, called attention to unsold stocks of toys ($180 million worth in 1963), blamed central planners for misconstruing the public taste. "These monsters of plush, pâpier-maché, wood and stainless steel are costing the state...
...different languages, including Batak, Luo, Amharic and Kis-si, and play such native instruments as the Indonesian angklung and the Chinese ch'eng. The neck of Crofut's banjo is fashioned from a leg from a Chinese table, while the frets are made out of toy railroad tracks from Korea...
...than 700 stores in Britain) acquired Fortnum's in 1951, emphasis has shifted away from foods. Britain's bowler-hat and mink-coat contingent can now shop at Fortnum's for women's wear, men's clothing, leather goods, linens, even TV sets. A toy department offers miniature Rolls-Royces and hand-carved rocking horses. The gifts department has a $190 crystal champagne bucket and a $700 crocodile-skin desk set. There is also an antique department in which almost nothing is less than $1,000, and a boutique with the latest designs...
...acquired none of the signs of soprano temperament, is instead almost girlishly exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and heaps them in the bathtub until she can arrange them around the house. To get to Covent Garden she takes a half hour ride on the tube, studying her role en route. "I memorize beautifully when there is noise around," she says. There promises to be a lot of noise about Gwyneth Jones for some...
Many so-called educational toys are mediocre gadgets whose makers hope to cash in on the wave of interest in early childhood education. Others-typically scale models-are too detailed, or "structured," in the lingo of child psychologists, which cramps a young child's imagination. "Parents who succumb to the charms of these toys are fulfilling their own frustrated needs," says Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner. Another kind of toy is truly educational but hardly new. Psychologists call them "miniature people" and say that children need them "to recreate the world around them." That's the hard...