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...inventor of the hula hoop...
...N.Y.U. player, he fell heavily to the court, but on the way down he somehow managed to arch the ball toward the basket with a flick of his powerful wrists. As he lay flat on his back, Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson watched the ball drop through the hoop. His expression was casual, as if he had expected it all along. The 14,587 spectators in New York's Madison Square Garden, who had expected no such thing, came to their feet with a roar of amazement...
Bound to Rise. Away from the boulevards and the showcases lurks old Guadalajara, with adobe slums, iron-grilled balconies and carriage-width streets. Swarming families live on tortillas and cheap pulque; rack-ribbed dogs nose through decaying garbage. But even here the gaudy gleam of a twirling hula hoop around the waist of a barefoot child serves notice that the old standstill Mexico of mañana and the travel posters is scrambling toward prosperity...
...Careful there, Mack, you're stepping on my sneakers ... I hear ya' man, don't snap your elbows on my ear ... I mean, like don't push ... the jacket, the jacket, man, you're wrinkling the bird; that's an engraved eagle ... okay, okay, I'm going ... the hula hoop is choking me ... acchhh...
Babies bawled, while their parents attacked box lunches. A little boy fell into an artificial lake and sputtered up, screaming. A little girl got a hula-hoop lesson from her dad. Linda Christian, Ty's exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...