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Beaming attendants swarmed all over the car that pulled into a Norwich, Conn., gas station. Battery checked? Oil? Windshield wiped? And wiped. And wiped. And wiped. Seems the young lady driver had on one of those new topless swimsuits, and while Yo-Yos and Hula-Hoops were fine for kids, this year's midsummer madness does absolutely nothing to weed the men from the boys. Policemen, politicians, churchmen all had their views, from the Tel Aviv cop who swore that "no nice Israeli girl would wear them" (25 suits had just hopped off local store racks) to Acapulco...
...Plague of Yo-Yos. On June 24, 1924, the Mirror reached the Manhattan scene almost as abruptly as it was destined to fade. "Can you start a new tabloid in ten days?" asked Arthur Brisbane, who was William Randolph Hearst's chief editorial lieutenant. "Nine," replied Walter Howey, who was to be the Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly...
...safety with the Nazis for the dubious privilege of making music in Berlin. But his admirers - who include editorial writers as well as music critics on many West German papers - excuse Felsenstein as a "fanatic genius" naively uninterested in anything that goes on outside the opera house. He yo-yos back and forth across Berlin, a social vegetable, a moral acrobat, an idiot-savant - and a genius of the opera...
...bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both legs; five other motorcyclists somehow escaped serious injury when they plunged, one after another, down...
...Real Yo-Yos...