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...They Streak Sir / The streaking fad is a response to the feminist movement in our country. The time has come when some men are begin ning to feel the need to prove to themselves and to others that they are the leaders of the species. They have chosen the best pos sible way in which to show people that men and women are not equal. When women start wearing the pants, men start shedding them...
...pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin-game industry, boosting its revenues and ushering in a new era of cutthroat competition between manufacturers...
...national passion for dancing. (Favorite songs for 1939 included "Deep in a Dream," "Wishing," and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was.") Meanwhile, Time magazine records the fact that a Harvard freshman, one Lothrop Witlington of Holworthy Hall, initiated the radically inane practice of goldfish swallowing, a fad which then spread to other universities...
...approximate license-plate position. On busy U.S. Route 1, traffic was brought to a cheerful standstill by 533 University of Maryland students chain-dancing au naturel. With astonishing swiftness, streaking, the art of the point-to-point dash in the buff, has burgeoned into an unabashed, pandemic American fad...
Adult reaction to the unclad fad has generally been mild and good humored. "We'd like to leave it alone," said a Northwestern University official. "After all, it's springtime." At the University of Georgia, officials decided that the school's policy toward streaking would be "noninterference." In Maine, the Portland Press Herald chided streakers for wearing shoes during one of the mildest Maine winters on record. "We are not opposed to streaking provided it is correctly undertaken and executed with some grace," the paper editorialized. "If you streak, have the common decency...