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Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, 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...
...Yale Daily News had the right string but the wrong yo-yo Thursday night...
Undeterred by an unseasonal dusting of snow, Emperor Hirohito and several other members of the imperial family trooped into their private box last week as the strains of Kimi-ga-yo, Japan's national anthem, wafted over the Senri Hills near Osaka. While multicolored flags and paper cranes swirled about them in the brisk breezes, cannons boomed a five-gun salute and a 100-piece orchestra blared Fanfare of the 21st Century, a piece specially written by composer Masaru Sato. Then two giant robots clanked into Festival Plaza, disgorging 110 members of a children's band who launched...
...closing numbers, Strike Up the Band and / Got Rhythm, have so far been orchestrated for a brassy pit band. The rest of the evening the dancers were accompanied by Pianist Gordon Boelzner, plunking away in imitation of Gershwin's strutting, rag-timey style. (In one number, Clap Yo' Hands, the dancers prance across the stage to the sound of Gershwin's own piano playing, recorded in 1926 and raspily reproduced on tape.) The solo piano is pure serendipity-suggesting the feverish, will-the-show-go-on mood of a storybook Great White Way that never...
...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...