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Shake Charmer. In Norwich, Conn., Yvette Richard, 11, discovered that by standing on the lawn while whirling a hula hoop about her waist she could make worms rise from the earth all around...
...Hypothesized New York State University Agricultural & Technical Institute Biologist Louis Pyenson: "When it rains, the drops falling on the earth set up a vibration, and the worms come out. So it must be with hoop twirling. When the twirler shifts weight to keep the hoop spinning, there are vibrations, and the worms rise from the earth...
...Prime Minister Kishi of Japan got one for his 62nd birthday, and a Belgian expedition setting out for the Antarctic announced it was taking 20 along to keep its members fit and happy. Not since the Yo-yo had a U.S. craze spread so far so fast. The hula hoop had circled the globe...
...manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
Chamber of Artisans. In Britain more than a quarter-million hoops had been sold in one week before the fad reached the editorial attention of the London Times, a sure sign that normalcy is returning. In Poland-so far the only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...