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...ever so much nicer than staying home with the telly," cooed a middle-aged mum with crimped grey hair to her friend in flowered silk. Under the fringed pink lights of a big London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like...
Last week the ritual was being repeated in ballrooms and cinemas all over Britain with a fervor that bordered on monomania. The British were out-bingoing the U.S. on a scale beyond the wildest dreams of the most game-happy Boston parish. The Mecca ballroom chain stages afternoon bingo games in 40 dance halls across Britain. But to bingo-mad mums, matinees at the Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting...
Blunt Terms. Almost every day, it seems, Goldwater's baritone voice can be heard telling the nation what he thinks it should know. In the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel early last week, he arose before 1,200 top New York businessmen to plead for a return to constitutional principles and a sound dollar. "I can't think of anything Mr. Khrushchev wants more than irresponsible fiscal policies such as we are under today-where we don't even know what the deficit will be next year." In recent weeks and months, and in blunt...
Softballs were lofting, basketballs thumping, swimming pools sloshing. People ranging from kids to grandmas were learning ballroom dancing, bird watching, guitar playing, oil painting, cake baking and bridge at North America's 2,500 YMCAs and YWCAs. Yet, according to the big-circulation (913,331) Roman Catholic weekly. Our Sunday Visitor, some 20% of the thumpers, sloshers. bakers and players should not have been there. They are Catholics, and. said the paper, the Young Men's (or Women's) Christian Association is no place for a Catholic...
...barges behind it. The glass flexed in and out, visibly and violently, like the stomach of a sales manager who has just hit a triple in a company Softball game. The explanation of this marvel lay in a large, gilt-plastered room one flight up: Manhattan's Palladium Ballroom. There, nearly 1,000 tunestruck New Yorkers-Cubans and Puerto Ricans, non-Latin secretaries and button-downs-were writhing from side to side, stomping and waving handkerchiefs in the air. The building is sturdy, but the floors rose and fell to the stomping...