Secrecy surrounds preps for 1973 toy show season
In Central Falls Rhode Island Hasbro works the tightly guarded model shop where Leonard Gray supervises overnight and weekend labor. The unit creates prototypes for testing market appeal and for display at the February New York toy show, a key event as Christmas sales account for about 80 percent of the toy market.
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Central Falls
Santa Claus
Leonard Gray
Hasbro Industries, Inc
Gray
U.S
New York
Hasbro
Cen
Park Reelected President in South Korea
Park Chang Hee won near unanimous re election as president of South Korea by the National Conference for Unification. He will serve six more years under a new constitution after securing 2359 of 2359 delegates with two invalid votes.
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Seoul
South Korea
Park Chang Hee
National Conference For Unification
Park
Motorcycle club feud leaves man dead in Kenmore
In suburban Kenmore a feud between two motorcycle clubs sparked a fatal shooting and injuries. John D. Flurschutz, 25, West Seneca, died outside Renegade Club headquarters. Tracy Scullen, 29, North Tonawanda, and Donald J. Jones, 44, Buffalo, were wounded. Scullen is hospitalized in serious condition. Police described two cars carrying three Riverside members firing on Renegade members as bottles struck the door. Scullen faces prior charges in a 1972 Kingsmen gang case.
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Buffalo
Kenmore
John D. Flurschutz
West Seneca
Renegade Motorcycle Club
Tracy Scullen
North Tonawanda
Donald J. Jones
Scullen
Elmer Arnet
Riverside Motorcycle Club
Amet
Jack Tracy
Tracy
Kingsmen
Santa mom dons suit for 50th year in Batavia Ohio
Anne Oskamp began playing Santa Claus as a 13 year old after her mother's death and has kept the role for 50 years. She rides a fire truck and visits Owensville area children including grandchildren and local youngsters. She plans to continue as long as she can and says she was born for the part.
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Batavia, Ohio
Anne Oskamp
Santa Claus
Nixon Kissinger Named Time Magazine Men of the Year
Time Magazine selected President Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger as its Men of the Year for 1972. The magazine called them an odd couple and noted their unlikely partnership reshaping global power during the Cold War era.
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Nixon
Kissinger
New York
Time Magazine
Henry A. Kissinger
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Hasbro Industries
Rhode Island
Edward Berry
New York Times Service
DK Sale
Geeta
Jeeners
Erie Blvd
East
John Zell & Sons Men's
Syracuse
Zell's
Herald-American — Post-Standard
Stoker
TITAN
Zenith
M. H. Williams
Brighton Ave
M.h
South Ave
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