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...inventor of the hula hoop...
Some other 1958 symbols of plenty: $1.6 billion for jewelry, $280 million for furs, $20.1 billion on travel and $2.1 billion for that growing U.S. hobby, boating. If his fancy was tickled, the U.S. consumer could even be tempted into buying 30 million hula hoops...
Saving Grace. Their determined serenity is sometimes derided; says Cole Porter: "I could spot Dick's songs anywhere. There is a certain holiness about them." But with serenity goes an unfailing professional competence. In Flower Drum-Song they do not shrink from such corn as a hula-hooping little girl and that ancient scene about the Chinese maiden who does not understand Western kissing; but there is always a saving grace of humor or taste, or at least professionalism. As their own producers, they ruthlessly cut their favorite songs or scenes if they detect that alarming rustle of inattention...
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...
...minute. 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...