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Conceived in the wind tunnels and laboratories of Hitler's Third Reich, the delta wing passed its early years as a kind of aeronautical curiosity, something for designers to toy with when they sketched supersonic planes of the future. Then turbojet and rocket experts began to turn out engines that had enough power to shove a man-carrying airplane up toward the speed of sound. The fantastic troubles of high-speed flight changed from drawing-board theory into tough, practical problems...
...Columbian Limited (Columbia). The record company says that this piece "can be used as realistic live background sounds for model and toy trains, or enjoyed for the pleasant excitement train sounds can give." Save for some transition dialogue by two children, and the conductor's calls, the recording is all train, chugs relentlessly for two sides...
Wandered into "New England's Largest Doll House." Doll behind counter was pouring orange juice down the mouth of one of the plastic dolls. "Then you just pull out this little pan and empty the doll, and she's ready for a refill." Made a hasty exit to the toy trains department...
...name; if a girl wears a Girl Scout beret, we can confidently ask her how she's doing in the troop. If she carries a new pocketbook, we say, "Oh, what a pretty purse! You didn't have that last year, did you?" A boy who asks for a toy gas station can be queried, "You mean for your cars?" Some ploys are ridiculousy simple--I ask a boy his age and he says he's five, "Oh of course!" I exclaim. "You were four last year!" Whereupon the boy will nod his head happily, proud that Santa remembers...
...Karel Truksa, engineer and dispatcher, respectively of the Czech train which made a dash for freedom across the border into Western Germany (TIME, Sept. 24). At the invitation of Lawrence Cowen, president of Lionel Corp., they will settle with their families in Irvington, N.J., work in Lionel's toy-train plant...