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...should certainly prove more costly. The maximum penalty under the law is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine-which may possibly preclude draft-card burning from rivaling panty raids or telephone-booth packing as a post-adolescent craze...
They used to be the trademark of African virgins looking for husbands, or European grandes dames who did not want to lose the family jewels. Now pierced ears are the latest craze among U.S. teen-age girls...
...search for Communists extended to Harvard. The University, acting on a long tradition of academic freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambigious figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point...
Postwar Tokyo has had a passion for fads. For many years, it was pachinko, or playing the pinball machines. Then came the chubby plastic dakkochan dolls (TIME, Aug. 29, 1960) that clung to girls' arms and shoulders. The latest craze is angling parlors, where patrons can drop a line into a pool and, be mused by background music, fish for carp. The fad caught on last year when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind...
...each year. Flowers arranged and put in vases at the shop are growing rapidly in popularity-partly because overworked nurses no longer have time to arrange the floods of flowers that hospital patients receive each day. Though small arrangements sell best in most parts of the country, the current craze in Manhattan is for flowers made into replicas of animals; poodles are most popular, cats come next, and at election time elephants and donkeys take over. Florists are constantly going to new lengths in the dyeing of flowers to match the color of party dresses or room decors; in Atlanta...