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Molloy is still a top-notch kicker, with a 39.3 yard average, one of the best in the country. He gets lots of practice. punting, in what Penn's newspaper once called: "the conga offense: one, two, three, kick...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Penn, After 55-0 Loss Saturday, Should Bow if Crimson Rebounds | 10/28/1964 | See Source »

Tshombe, for one, was quite willing to be reconciled. After a four-hour meeting with Adoula, he called a press conference at Leopoldville's Zoo Restaurant. While monkeys chattered and brightly dressed Congolese couples twisted to the music of the Conga Succes jazz band, a grinning Tshombe shook hands, signed autographs and proclaimed: "I'm convinced that sincere, total reconciliation between all Congolese is the only absolute condition for saving the country from misery and anarchy." The crowd shouted back: "Free us! Free us!" This was heady stuff, but then everything in the months ahead would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Back Comes Moses the Beloved | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Divorced. Xavier Cugat, 64, roly-poly king of Latin swing; by Abbe Lane, 32, wiggly-jiggly singer who joined "Coogie's" conga line in 1950; after twelve years of marriage, no children; on grounds of incompatibility; in Juárez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 12, 1964 | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...Company New Year's Eve party, a soggy little orgy of pretend-gaiety, Domenico seems at first gawky and estranged. But he is drawn in, fearful, perplexed, hungry for human contact; until at last he bounces with the rest in a giggly conga-line...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman., | Title: The Sound of Trumpets | 2/6/1964 | See Source »

...parties at a palatial embassy set on 25 wooded acres in Chevy Chase. She and Fernando, a wealthy aristocrat who went to Notre Dame but speaks with a British accent, often entertain younger members of the New Frontier-the Bobby Kennedys, the Paul Fays-and the guests sometimes form conga lines or twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: The Party Line | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

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