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...truck, acquired over the summer. This fine machine, making only four trips to the dump a day, enables B & G to abandon the old incinerator system. Instead of burning rubbish in their respective basements, House and Yard superintendents leave the trash on the street until B & G's new toy comes around and picks it up. Buildings and Grounds says this all will save large sums of money...
...goes the normal routine, but beneath the spread of idiosyncracy in Skelton's life there has been true misfortune; often he retreats to the toy-filled room of his late son, Richard, who died of leukemia in 1958. He sits there and broods for hours. Once Skelton kept a small trailer at the back of his property and would close himself away in it for days at a time...
...because their friends have bought dakkochans. The vast majority, however, reply with one or another variant of "It's so cute and lovable that I just have to have one." Says Suda: "Japanese have always been soft on children, and standing all night in line to buy a toy is just another proof of that. I feel guilty about the situation...
TRANSISTOR-RADIO QUOTAS will be set by Japanese government on exports to U.S. in a move to head off U.S.-imposed restrictions. Japanese companies have asked for quota of 6,000,000 sets with three or more transistors and 2,000,000 toy sets with one or two transistors, about 2,000,000 sets more than 1959 exports...
...suites, 62 conductors, 61 instrumentalists, 72 singers, ten operatic and orchestral groups, and 161 musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi...