Word: mocambo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picked up 61 teen-agers on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love it, I love it." Says he: "Our policemen feel they are taking part in a perverted...
Being a Rolling Stones fan is no way to make headlines-unless your name happens to be Margaret Trudeau. Then it is easy. All Margaret had to do was attend a couple of rare nightclub performances by that bad, bad band at Toronto's El Mocambo and mingle with the boys afterward. Trouble was, the first show coincided with the sixth anniversary of Margaret's wedding to Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 57. Leaving husband and three children in Ottawa, Margaret, 28, had checked in at the Stones' hotel and stayed up with...