Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, Mr. Scully, class of '65, can do all sorts of wondrous things with a basketball. He steals it, he dribbles it, he posses it, he grabs it away from fellows several inches taller than his 6 ft. 1 in. stature, and he throws it through the hoop, which after all is the object of the whole affair. For the first few games he was a hit hesitant about his shooting, but in the Crimson's four Ivy games Scully has been the first or second leading scorer in all of them...
...into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten up. the instant fish are ready for life in a bigger tank and a grown-up diet. The instant fish kit ($2.98) is produced by Wham0 Mfg. Co.-the entrepreneurs of the Hula Hoop...
Sophomore year also marked the coming of the hula-hoop to Radcliffe and the coming of the frisbee to the River banks...
...some other West German teen-agers went to the Leipzig Sports Festival in Communist East Germany. One day, passing a stadium exit, Bernd Schmidt was caught in a throng of girls who came pouring from the field after a gymnastic display. Schmidt recalls: "Some were carrying their hoops high over their heads, others were rolling them. Suddenly, someone dropped a hoop over me. Everyone laughed...
Meanwhile, the basketball team (four wins, two losses) enters the tournament of the University of Washington in St. Louis as the lone Eastern representative. The six-college invitational hoop tourney will be played Thursday, Friday, and Saturday...