The Ultimate Weapon

Over the past 18 months, five separate industrial plants have been at work on a project, each making a small but vital part, each kept in ignorance of the nature of the ultimate weapon. Then last week, with all sections assembled, Chancellor Records of Philadelphia detonated its bomb. American youth can now buy long-playing albums containing the sculptured heads of the Great Ducktail Warblers, Fabian and Frankie Avalon.

Selling for $5.98 apiece, the two "photomensional" albums (a dozen old and new songs in each) are packaged in bakery boxes, the sort crumb cake comes in. Visible through a large round cellophane inset are F. & F.'s Vinylite heads, whose unblemished cheeks are supposed to feel like skin but actually feel like soapstone and smell like Mr. Clean. Each idol is mounted on a cardboard plaque covered with artificial suede and can be hung by a brass ring on a bedroom wall.

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