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...Students shall not knit or chew gum at public lectures or concerts, or in classes when guest lecturers are present...
...debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks as if it cost at least 39,000 bubble-gum wrappers) at a passing cloud. He wants to make rain but he only breaks windows-20,000 windows...
...Japan, where borrowed Western ways become Nipponized in no time, the latest national cult is gum chewing. The great chewalong has quadrupled gum consumption in five years, making it Japan's third favorite sweet, after chocolates and caramels. No fewer than 43 manufacturers are turning out gamu, as it is called, and they have already popularized 150 flavors, including such tangy new taste sensations as green tea, gin fizz and pickled plum. In the interests of more mannerly mastication, the manufacturers have even prescribed a code of gummanship (cardinal rule: never chew when addressing your elders), plan to install...
Though it seemed hardly necessary, a new organization called the Let's Chew More Gum Association opened offices this month in Tokyo. The opening, attended by politicians, baseball stars and showfolk, went as smoothly as a cathedral service-which, in a way, it was. Highlight of the première was a special prayer intoned by a Shinto priest standing before a kind of altar to gamu. Excerpts...
...Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, gum of diverse kinds, we offer this prayer to thee. There is grandeur in chewing gum. It is our marvelous pet, an important accessory of mankind in this modern age. Chewing gum sweetens the breath, imparts a pleasant feeling, strengthens the stomach and calms anger ... It invites happiness. It attracts smiles. An enjoyable and intellectual life is made possible because of gum chewing ... O Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, rest in peace...