Word: mambo
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...land of Fujiyama, harakiri, paper houses and the ritualized courtesy of the tea ceremony, everybody seemed to be doing the mambo. Big-city dance halls with alternating bands and little village meeting places with borrowed phonographs were rocking each night with shoulder-shaking, hip-writhing youngsters. Tea parlors, coffee shops and bars dispensed their drinks to a rolling mambo beat, and new dance halls were abuilding to cope with the craze...
...took the police only a few hours to find him. Jose Vargas, 15, nicknamed "Chico Mambo'' because "I cut a cute rug." had a long history of delinquency (he was once arrested for holding up a younger boy at knife point), proudly announced that he had not been in school since April. He was also apparently proud of the stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked...
...Salads & Mambos. Making clothes with the American Look is no simple trick. U.S. women, says President Hector Escobosa of San Francisco's I. Magnin, "don't want their sports clothes to look like overalls, but they want them to act like overalls." While Claire McCardell and other top designers lead the way, the U.S. fashion industry is now busy turning out garments to keep up with the fast modern pace-dresses that are as at home in the front seat of a station wagon as in the back seat of a Rolls, as comfortable in the vestibule...
...Mambo (Ponti De Laurentiis; Paramount) is offered as "the exalting story of a slum girl who attains integrity through her experiences with men and her love of the dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count...
...famed Peruvian singer combines her trick voice with the driving, big-band rhythms of Billy May. She growls like a bush-league Carmen, coloratours through the upper register like the Queen of the Night, and whoops like a jungle bird, but is it mambo...