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Christmas comes to a certain area of Manhattan in mid-March. There, in the New Yorker Hotel and in the 23rd Street showrooms near Broadway, most of the nation's 1,500 toymakers gathered last week to show off some 200,000 toys that will hit the U.S. market next Christmas season. From plush lions that roar to vinyl dolls that burp, the toys are designed to win the notoriously fickle attention of U.S. children and, toymakers hope, to hike this year's toy sales 20% to $1.3 billion. The prospect of all these toys makes visions...
California's Mattel, Inc., the biggest toy company, will use more than 150,000 Ibs. of Saran filament for the hair of its bestselling and well-dressed Barbie Doll, another 5,000,000 midget phonograph records and needles-for its talking toys, as well as huge quantities of plastic, zinc and steel for its new line of bikes, tricycles and trucks; the line will have a battery-driven device called the VRROOM, which emits a roar like a motorcycle and is intended to catch every...
...come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook up to jets at air terminals) but many more for the future. This past Christmas, for example, Hugo told the world that by 1972 all Negroes can have all-white children if they wish, merely by agreeing to let chemigeneticists toy with their enzymes...
...chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
...song A Secretary Is Not a Toy (Une Secrétaire N'Est Pas une Poupée), he was confronted with this one: "Her pad is to write in and not to spend the night in." Parisians could be expected to understand the sentiment but not the beat idiom. Castans settled for a weak substitute: in translation, "Her place is at the office and not at the Lido...