Word: checker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably the most common Christmas gift this year is a Chubby Checker "Twist" record. Minute Man Records has started ordering them by the crate...
...biggest thing since Tom Lehrer," beamed the saleslady. Ray Charles--doing the same kind of music--and Joan Baez are also selling well. The store plans to sell "in the thousands" of Checker records...
...says Dr. Canet. ''We simply returned to an area we knew.'' But in New Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...
...keep them coming, Hamid gives them much more than corny carny fare, pays top fees for entertainment headliners. Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak and Gene Krupa, along with such juvenescent goldbugs as Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Paul Anka, and the comparable Fabian, whose singing debut was made at the pier's Kiddies Theater a short time ago, when he was twelve...
Starting with slope-shouldered, checker-shirted young boys "not knowing what to do with their bodies or souls," The Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point...