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...toy piano no larger than a child's pencil box. With only eight keys and two tiny batteries that should last for 5,000 hours, the piano broadcasts its electronic tones through any nearby radio...
...Waldron Smithers, Toriest of back-bench Tories, suddenly nourished a nail-spiked cosh. "It is not in order to bring an offensive weapon into the House," boomed the Speaker. "Take it out! Take it out!" shouted Labor members. But Smithers' cosh proved to be a child's toy made of hollow rubber. Said Smithers: "It is a sham, but by filling it with sand it can be made into a lethal weapon." Smithers asked for a ban on coshes. "The increase in violence," he said, "is the direct result of six years of Socialist and materialist philosophy...
...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
...fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...