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...Murphy, president of the Campbell Soup Company and chairman of the Business Council, was quoted in the New York times of May 14 as saying, in regard to the current interest in auto safety, "It's all of the same order as the hula hoop--a fad. Six months from now, we'll probably be on another kick." Your editorial of May 13 on highway safety reflects a similar vein of though. In addition, you have chosen to label Ralph Nader, one of the protagonists, as "flamboyant" and suggest that the American public will soon tire of his effort...
...publicity buildup made it sound like the Second Coming. "The most electrifying entertainer in the world," pealed a CBS advertisement on air day last week, "has a new hit on her hands . . . even more exciting than the first." The morning after, many a critic looped ecstatically through the hoop. Color Me Barbra, the show was called, and one reviewer exclaimed, "Color her magnificent." "She is the only younger superstar around," cried another. "The show of this year," declared a third. Yet for all the press raves and the excessive bravos of the studio audience, last week's Barbra...
Harvard reeled off 10 straight points. Grate sank three foul shots, and Gene Dressler hit a jumper from the corner. Then Grate stole the ball, leaped above the basket, and dropped the ball over his right shoulder into the hoop. His foul shot made the score 20-19 and successful drive by Keith Sedlacek put Harvard in front for the first time. The Crimson led at halftime, 33 to 28, and never relinquished the lead...
...victory was a fairly auspicious start to the Crimson's season. New Hampshire is no titan of the hoop world, to be sure, but Harvard shot well and committed surprisingly few ball-handling errors for an early-season game. And coach Floyd Wilson seems to have come up with a couple of good players in sophomore Bob Beller and George Neville...
...that it had a fantastic bounce. But Bettis Co. was not interested, mostly because the ball tended to fall apart after five minutes. So Stingley took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing the Frisbee and the Hula-Hoop. For the next year, Stingley and Wham-O worked to make the ball more durable (it is still apt to chip or shatter on rough surfaces), then dyed it purple for no particular reason, fixed a 98? price tag on it, and threw it out to the public four months...