Word: cha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorcade that followed was un like anything that Lyndon Johnson had ever seen in 28 years of politicking. As the King and the President drove past in a long yellow Mercedes, with Sirikit and Lady Bird following in a yellow Daimler, schoolchildren daintily waved flags and cried softly, "Cha yo [hurrah]." Not once did Lyndon yield to the temptation to stop the show and press some flesh. In contrast to the placard-waving scenes from Melbourne to Manila, there were no demonstrations. "Such an act," said General Praphas Charusathien, the Interior Minister, "is against...
...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
...meal plants now operate along the coast. In the north-coast town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
...Unmistakable Sound. On the Shalom (Peace), just three hours out of New York on a Caribbean cruise, New York Pharmacist Stephen Tannenbaum and his wife Barbara were among the late-stayers at a Thanksgiving Eve party. Shortly after 2 a.m., they were dancing the cha cha cha in one of the ship's ballrooms when they were thrown to the floor and heard that horrifying dissonance-unmistakable to anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo...
Sloan Jr., 89, who merged his small New Jersey roller-bearing plant into G.M. in 1916, later became its chief executive and brought order to its cha otic divisions. Today he is a vigorous member of G.M.'s finance committee -and has 688,046 shares, which will yield him $3.1 million this year. Close behind, with 645,176 shares, is John Lee Pratt, 84, who came to the com pany from Du Pont in 1919 and rose to become a G.M. vice president. Now a retired Virginia farmer who shuns publicity, Pratt so successfully keeps out of public view...