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...burly, outgiving 200-pounder, Tacho delighted in shooting, swimming, poker, dancing (he was fast-stepping through the Cha Cha Cha shortly before he was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Champ is Dead | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Back to the charms of grey Paris after a summer at gay Saint-Tropez, where she nursed her suntan on a hot beach all day and danced the cha cha cha all night, French Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan was enjoying the gift of independence she recently offered herself on her 21st birthday: a new dark blue, green and white apartment on the Left Bank, in place of the bourgeois restrictions of her sedate family home. On warm days when Françoise is not dashing about in her Studebaker, Buick, Jaguar (bought with her first royalty check) or Gordini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...heaps of lechón asado (roast pig) and pasteles (meat cakes wrapped in plantain leaves). Blindfolded children laughingly broke piñatas, whacking away with sticks at the hanging earthenware pots that might contain candy or water; music vibrated whole city blocks, and there were dozens of mambo, cha-cha and rumba contests. For San Juan is the patron saint of the island of Puerto Rico, and the Roman Catholic Church in the two cities was giving the Puerto Ricans their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fiesta | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Like all successes, Rock n Roll, has had imitations. Wishing to capitalize on its great success, certain musicians have exploited Rock n roll to promote new types of music. so the first popular Cha-Cha was titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: "Flip Flop n Fly" | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

...blow all the loot we got for books, whatta we gonna use when we meet those cha-cha babes?" asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE BECOME HAHARVUD MAN, FIND SPEECH STILL FREE | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

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