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Australia, which gave the world the benefits of the Hula Hoop, last week was exporting a new craze-the wobble board. Made of Masonite. the 2 ft. by 3 ft. board, when wobbled, gives off a gloop-gloop sound, like water going down the drain. With it youngsters can keep the beat to a wacky lament of a dying rancher called Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.* Australian parents are wobbling under the board's gloop. The craze has spread to Great Britain, where already 100,000 records have brought the resonant beat of the wobble board. Last week there...
Just in case the craze catches on in the U.S., the Masonite Corp. has already set up a production line for kangaroo-stenciled boards in its Elizabeth (N.J.) plant. The company does not expect to make any money on the boards (it lost 2? per board in Australia) but it does expect rich rewards in free advertising -even if it means adopting a kangaroo as a corporate image...
...began in June, when an unknown teen-age girl strolled down Tokyo's bustling Ginza with what appeared to be a baby Martian clinging to her arm. Almost overnight the boom was on. By last week, in the hottest craze to hit Japan since the Hula Hoop, Tokyo department stores were filled with scrambling, stumbling, shoving teen-agers fighting to spend 180 yen (50?) for a squeaking, winking, black-skinned dakkochan ("embraceable") doll...
...cars performed before an audience of 5,000 at Lime Rock, Conn, in a battle of agility and speed that was finally won by Harry Carter in a Lotus with an average speed of 78.18 m.p.h. At dozens of the top tracks across the U.S. and Europe, the newest craze in auto racing is Formula Junior competition, a kind of half-pint Grand Prix...
While politics is always the trunk line, his humor ranges everywhere. Crazes craze him. His masterpiece on hi-fi ends with a family living in their garage and using the house as a speaker. When he read that people were daubing themselves with instant skin tan, he moaned: "If you can't believe in the sun, what can you believe in?" Psychoanalytic clichés are seldom spared. Once, says Sahl, a bank robber slipped the teller a note saying: "Give me your money and act normal." The teller replied: "First you must define your terms. After all, what...