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...Yo-Yo Going Down. American tourists who thought that the December devaluation had stabilized the dollar rate have been startled to find it bouncing up and down like a yo-yo-but mostly down. "They come into the hotel and walk over to the board that lists exchange rates, shake their heads and mumble," says a Paris Hilton executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DOLLAR: At Last, A Hint of Reform | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan's Yo-Yo firm was forced into bankruptcy after his retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1971 | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...Yale Daily News had the right string but the wrong yo-yo Thursday night...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Now the Globe Moynihan Will Quit Present Job To Be U. S. Ambassador to U. N. | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

...bare-chested guest in a beret was ejected for wearing a bandolier of live ammunition. Hirsute Abbie Hoffman stopped twirling his yo-yo long enough to raise his hand and ask gravely "May I go to the bathroom?" Nancy Kurshan, clad as a witch, alternately burned incense and smooched with a brown-bearded, bell-bearing friend. She identified her organization as the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, and intoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Costume Party | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...three days after the violence, disgusted policemen flooded the campus. They dangled their Billy Clubs and to pass time they played the delicate yo-yo games with the little baseball bats which they had learned in many years of dawdling before and after action...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Wherever He Might Be Next Year, President Kirk Will Remember What Cops Do To Campuses. So Will Students. | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

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