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Show Super-Ball Devastates In New National Craze : - " : I -'X ft 1 I ' i - Bv PETER CALLAGHAN Chronicle Staff Writer Mid-terms, first round, are over. You'll probably do better next time if you are anything like Super-Ball, the little thingy that picks up speed on its second sec-ond bounce and goes even higher than its first bounce. THE BALL appeared in Amar-illo Amar-illo last July for the first time. Now, like the Hula Hoop and Frisbe of bygone ages, it is spreading across the continent. It created havoc in the "Chron icle" office when some nut brought it in to distract himself while massaging his brains for inspiration. Everybody started throwing the ball, bouncing and ducking and missing deadlines. Super-Ball was created by the same company which invented Hula Hoop and Frisbee. It is made of a secret high resilient rubber "Zectron", developed by Norman Stingley, a chemist. The company claims it is formed under a pressure of 300 tons compared to the ordinary 48 tons for sponge-rubber balls. WHEN DROPPED from eye-level, eye-level, Super Ball will bounce to 92 per cent of its original height and go on bouncing for a full minute, compared to ten seconds sec-onds for a tennis ball. Thrown against a hard floor with enough force, it will jump a three-story high building. It generally retails for 98 cents. The potentials of Super Ball are devastating. Think of what it could do to hand-ball courts. Since it can reverse directions at every bounce, a skillfull player play-er can almost make it come alive. Last week, two Utes were seen playing with it against the North wall of Grand Central. There are better walls to bounce on up here on Campus. It is noiseless for classroom purposes. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super-Ball, a new creation by makers of Hula Hoop that has been sweeping the nation includiut i some of the local handball courts and the office of the "Chronicle,- |