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...came by the craze in its own way. In Paris, Jacques de Saint-Phalle, whose respectable business has been the manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
Chamber of Artisans. In Britain more than a quarter-million hoops had been sold in one week before the fad reached the editorial attention of the London Times, a sure sign that normalcy is returning. In Poland-so far the only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...
...lighting industry the newest fad is the old gas lamp. The fad got going last year when Whitt Stephens, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president and board chairman, offered to install gas lamps free for the entire city of Little Rock, Ark. as a stunt to publicize gas. The city could not legally accept, but Stephens had six gaslights put up near city hall. So many householders liked their soft glow that Stephens decided to mass-produce the lamps through the company's subsidiary, Arkla Air Conditioning Corp...
...Alley is not a place-it is a state of mind. One of the remarkable examples of this phenomenon is the recent Hula Hoop fad, which ordinarily might not have been noticed by anyone except parents, storekeepers and sociologists, but wrhich has been turned into song. See SHOW BUSINESS, Hula Balloo...
...wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children's games, the hoop soon graduated to adult calisthenics...