Word: frug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey and his partner got applause for their performance of the "Humphrey special" to Alexander's Ragtime Band. Luci and her friends gyrated through the twist and the frug; then the President himself came on with a stomp of uncertain origin that might have been a presidential version of a step teen-agers have dubbed the "bird." To the racy tune of the old Edith Piaf favorite Milord, Lyndon took Luci in a modified bear hug and whirled her around while flapping time to the music with his elbows...
...Entertained Denmark's lively Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag and his actress wife Helle with a state dinner and dance. Luci Johnson, 16, enjoyed her first state party so much that she stopped the dance in a shoulder-shaking demonstration of the frug with Ricky Keaton, 17, son of a Houston electrical contractor. While guests applauded, a beaming Lyndon clapped out the beat. Luci and Keaton later drove off for a spin in Keaton's red sports...
Luci Baines, 16, insists that she is trying to shed what she calls her "Harry High School" image, but she recently had a group of teenagers in to dance the Frug in the Blue Room-a White House first. Lynda Bird, 20, a government major at George Washington University, often enriches her education when she spies a distinguished presidential visitor in the waiting room. She sits right down and starts popping a barrage of coed's questions about current events. Once Lynda spotted Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and asked, "Now what have you been up to?" Replied...