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...months the country's 9,000,000 voters had endured every variety of speech, parade and accusation. In the slums of Lagos, naked children ran through the streets blowing "ZEE-EEK" on whistles handed out by supporters of Eastern Region Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, or noisily deflated colored toy balloons producing the sound of a crowing cock, symbol of Zik's N.C.N.C. Party. Overhead, imported skywriters drew a palm tree in the sky, symbol of Zik's free-spending opponent, Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just...
Biggest seller among the high-priced toys is a $30, bright-eyed, 3-ft.-tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other...
...Hubley Manufacturing Co.'s Tic-Toy Clock. The spring-driven plastic clock, with its mechanism visible, actually keeps lime, has big, colored parts that can be taken apart and put back together again. List price...
...Space-toy sales this year are sparked by new touches of realism. Explains Remco Industries President Saul Robbins: "Instead of the old Buck Rogers fantasy of flapping from one planet to another with a vaporizing gun, we're emphasizing land-based space. Children have to have something they can understand. Outer space is too futuresque for them." To duplicate the thrill of a rocket launching, Louis Marx & Co., world's largest toymaker, is offering a Cape Canaveral Missile Base set (list price: $7.98), with a phonograph record of actual launching countdowns. Ideal's Electronic Fighter Jet (list...
...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...