Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disenchanted; and Cinemactress Lauren (The Big Sleep, Key Largo) Bacall, 36, widow of Humphrey Bogart; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ensenada, Mexico, after being balked by legal obstacles (among them: lack of Bogie's death certificate) on a seven-week hotel-hop of London, Paris, Vienna and Las Vegas...
Broad Jump. Nobody will be pushing versatile Ralph Boston very hard, but nobody has to. Just two weeks ago, the Tennessee State senior, competing in the high hurdles, the low hurdles, the high jump, the hop, step and jump, as well as the broad jump, ran up his school's entire total of 47 points at the N.A.I.A. championships, was shaded by only 2 points by Texas Southern's title-winning track team. Boston, who generally has to wait until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before...
...named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor "Killer Joe" Piro began teaching it there. Killer Joe feels that the dance is too complex for definition, but an executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily as "two basic movements...
...Latin American neighborhoods and into record shops everywhere; across the nation the hopeful hip are beginning to ask for lessons. In Manhattan, the Astaire Studios and Arthur Murray's were offering instruction up to the Ph.D. level, including such variations as the Under Arm Step, the Indian Hop, and the Kennedy Stomp. But even the experts still seemed somewhat confused. "The Pachanga," Arthur Murray pronounced sagely, "is gay and fun and sexless." Clearly, Murray had been watching the Palladium's handkerchiefs, not its skirts...
...brothers were inspired tinkerers, not original thinkers; they did not concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809, nearly a century before Orville Wright made his historic 120-ft. hop. In a new book, Sir George Cayley (Max Parrish, London; 425.), Aeronautics Historian J. Laurence Pritchard, former secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, has put together an astonishing catalog of the accomplishments of that prolific genius...