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They are the work of Alex Katz, a young man who in the last three years has achieved quite a reputation as a figure painter. These cutouts, which were the stage sets for Koch's play, are a side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else...
...falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore at the President for refusing to knuckle under on steel prices. It's a conspiracy, you can be sure of that...
Unpadded, Rita Tushingham weighs about 120 lbs. and looks like a soft rubber toy. She is signed for five more pictures, but there are no scripts, and no one knows exactly what she will do. She has a problem because she is now a star and cannot do the small parts that she needs for experience, nor are there many starring parts for little female elves with big wide eyes...
...before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon the royal equestrians. At the Ascot riding show, Princess Anne, 11, trying a bit too hard to please the judge, Queen Elizabeth, lost...
...Orbiteer as a trade premium through gas stations for $1.49 (regular price: about $2.50). Standard unloaded 90,000 in Southern California the first week. A marketing firm retained by Knox Instruments estimates a U.S. market of 25 million the first year, and negotiations are under way to sell the toy in Canada, Bermuda, Mexico, England and Belgium. Look...