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...were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks of color, like atoms locked together in the Tinker Toy of their own energy...
...Carlos tossed his treasures away like toy trinkets. The Italian nation al radio-TV network bought the building although the Tiepolos are now unpurchasable state treasures...
...delivered to the agent. The deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin for $2,000. Later, both brothers were arrested, and 442 gr. of heroin were found in the taxicab...
...Ideal Toy's new Smarty Bird, a battery-powered duck that walks about rolling its eyes and snapping its beak, alone will use up 600,000 Ibs. of plastics, 600 tons of steel, and enough corrugated cartons to cover 480 football fields. Chicago's Strombecker Corp. (midget racers, Tootsietoys) will consume more than 118 million tiny tires from Japan, and Los Angeles' Eldon Industries will use more than 300 tons of steel for the slender rails embedded in its plastic roadracing track...
...Back. Toy sales in the nation's retail stores are expected to hit $1.68 billion this year, but that is no real measure of just how important toy departments actually are to U.S. retailers. The smart storekeeper gets much more out of toys than the $28 national average that is spent for each importuning child each year. He prices the popular items low, then sets up his toy department way to the back of his store, usually on a high floor. That way, parents must troop by counters laden with many other kinds of tempting merchandise before they...