"You can't start Basic Space Training too early!" said a Macy's ad in Manhattan last week. For $5.98 Macy's offered a space academy, complete with men from Mars and Jupiter, atomic launchers, flying saucers and disintegrators. From the look of things, Macy's was right. Just 45 shopping days before Christmas, toy counters all over the nation were piled high with mountains of space suits, rocket ships and other gravity-defying devices. Space was the big seller.
There is a "flying-saucer gun" which shoots whirling plastic disks high in the air ($1); a noiseless "space ray gun" of plastic molded around a...
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