Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Shepard, the manager of La Discotheque Nicole says that Cambridge has long needed a discotheque to bridge the gap between the record hop and the live band. A discotheque employs at least two high-fidelity turntables to provide continuous dance music and usually has a specially constructed dance floor. A discotheque also features moderate prices; the average tab at the Nicole runs two dollars per person...
...brink of destitution, just hop aboard a special bus leaving the Square at 12:15, head for Rockingham Park race track, and you'll be a rich man by mid-afternoon. The first race is a toss-up between two long shots, BEAU GENERAL and JACK DEMPSEY. Play each of them in the daily double with EFSHAR in the second race. The double should pay around $200. It can't lose...
...future space voyages, the lifting body will be orbited separately. When the astronauts are ready for the trip back, they will rendezvous with the M2-F2, hop in, fire the retrorockets and glide on home...
...with 329 comes the Great Leap Forward (well, it is, at least, a hop; and the direction is distinctly ahead). Confronted with the perennial dilemma-cover many things superficially, or fewer things well-cover editors have opted for selective excellence. Unfortunately the standard is still elusive; execution and content are only occasionally memorable. But the general change in format, the attempt to write longer, more thoughtful, more critical essays on selected topics is, without doubt, an important and much-needed innovation...
...state line for "immoral purposes," Berry was recently granted a reprieve by his parole board in St. Louis and is now one of the most popular singers on the rock 'n' roll circuit. Chubby Checker is back pushing a new dance called the Freddie, a kind of side-straddle-hop routine...