Word: choos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...handkerchief-size child's security blanket, which the stewardess demonstrates by rubbing it against her cheek. Freberg plans to paint one of Pacific's Boeing 727s to look like a locomotive, complete with wheels on the fuselage and a cowcatcher on the nose. Inside, passengers will hear choo-choos over the loudspeakers...
...Sayles Conover, 53, one-time fashion model and founder of New York's successful Conover Modeling Agency, who built a $2,000,000-a-year business on the "well-scrubbed look" of the American coed type for whom he invented such names as Chili Williams, Candy Jones and Choo Choo Johnson, lost his license in 1959 after his models complained that he had withheld their fees; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...Come On, Choo Choo!" Florida's six jai alai frontons tempt fans with drinks, dinners, dames-and enough pageantry to make Nero jealous. At the world's biggest (capacity: 6,000) and costliest ($4,500,000) fronton in suburban Miami, customers do not even have to leave their upholstered seats to get taken to the cleaners-pretty girls in green and gold uniforms prance up and down the aisles collecting bets...
...each year 1,400,000 fans pour $41 million into the frontons' pari-mutuel machines (the state's cut: $2,300,000). Lounging behind a protective wire screen, the fans sip daiquiris and cheer wildly for players whose names they cannot pronounce. "Come on, Choo Choo!" they yell to Churruca, an acrobatic Basque whose specialty is running straight up a side wall to pick off a pelota 15 ft. above the floor. "Attababy, Orby!" they scream to Orbea, who can slam the ball into the front wall so accurately that it will hit a handkerchief halfway back down...