Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANNUAL N.B.A. ALL-STAR GAME (ABC, 8:30 p.m. to conclusion). Top stars from the National Basketball Association's Eastern and Western divisions hoop it up on the court in Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden...
...spread hula-hoops across the country," he declared "and now they're dumping them on little children in Nepal. Getting out of the hula-hoop business," he added, "was where I made money...
Nothing is deader than yesteryear's fad, or so at least moan merchants who have been stuck with unsalable stocks of Yo-yos, Davy Crockett hats and Batman costumes. Until six weeks ago, the same could have been said of Hula Hoops, which in a profitable six months in 1958 racked up worldwide sales of 70 million. But Wham-O Manufacturing Corp., which started the first craze, had a hunch that hoops were good for another twirl. The novelty that was needed was noise. So Wham-O put half-a-dozen ¼-in.-diameter ball bearings inside each hollow...
Missing a mark in yachting is a mistake roughly comparable to shooting at the opponents' hoop in basketball or stealing an occupied base in baseball...
...came the Bill Russell Rule, which forbids blocking a shot when the ball is on its downward course. Now there is the Lew Alcindor Rule. College basketball's rules makers decided last week that players may no longer "dunk" or "stuff" the ball by ramming it through the hoop from directly above...