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Pilot: Quebec ground, this is Foxtrot Juliet Victor Hotel, radio check. One two decimal nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Air Talk: Attendez, S'il Vous Pla | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Pilote: Québec sol, ici Foxtrot Juliette Victor Hôtel, vérification radio. Un deux décimale neuf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Air Talk: Attendez, S'il Vous Pla | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...husband are the first couple on the dance floor. The years between them add up to a tweedy century. They swirl in a self conscious foxtrot, counting every two beats as one. Their time is halved like this: for a few minutes they will dance absent-mindedly, staring in wonder at the crowd; then they will close their eyes, hug closer, and do a fair imitation of themselves thirty years earlier...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer in the Fred Astaire mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 12, 1975 | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Tule Lake 30 Years Later | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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