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Home 3-D. Lionel Corp., toy train-makers, announced a three-dimensional stereo camera, equipped with dual lenses which take separate pictures simultaneously. For 3-D effect, the film must be looked at through a special viewer. Price for camera, case, viewer and eight stereo pairs of film, $39.95, less than half the price of stereo cameras now on the market...
...behind the Iron Curtain. The Mexican embassy called it a nonpolitical, fact-finding trip. In company with a Mexican friend, he flew to Vienna, Prague and on to Warsaw. There he met assorted Polish bigwigs and took in a Communist exhibition, "This Is America," featuring a display of the toy bazookas, flamethrowers and junior space suits which war-crazed, blood-thirsty American parents buy their kids. At week's end, the former President flew on back, in high spirits, to Paris, announced that he hoped later to visit Moscow. Perplexed Mexicans, reading of his travels, recalled that...
Three excited youngsters, sons of Manhattan's millionaire Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, arrived recently at the Fort Myer, Va. quarters of General Omar Bradley for a visit with their star-studded godfathers. Result: a medley of big names and a remarkable godfather-godson picture. The host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall...
Moppet Motorcar. At the American Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Ideal Toy Corp. displayed a motorcar with a Fiberglas body for moppets. The car is 62 in. long, 30 in. wide, is powered by a six-volt battery and has a top speed of 5 m.p.h. Price: around...
...curl and yellow on the bulletin boards, some 200 marooned U.S. officers and men have found various ways to alleviate boredom since the Panmunjom talks were broken off last October. The latest (in addition to cards, pingpong, movies, basketball, pheasant hunting in the nearby hills and sleeping): assembling toy trains from kits sent from Japan...