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Real Romance. Bad Neuenahr is typical because gambling, once considered a failing of the decadent aristocracy, has throughout Europe today become awesomely respectable, middle-class-and big. In Monaco, camera-toting tourists just off tour buses from Brussels and Amsterdam clutter up the Grand Casino, while serious Monégasque students of chance clang away at the one-armed bandits lined up across the street from the elegant Hotel de Paris. In France, the postwar development of le tierce, a combination racing bet and lottery, which attracts 3,000,000 Frenchmen every Sunday, has made horse-track betting the country...
...mon, don't you like having doors held for you? Are you so "independent...
...been dashing about Athens with her husband King Constantine, 25, visiting galleries, strolling hand-in-hand through the park, dining in public restaurants and attending scores of gala functions. At last the world's youngest and loveliest queen sailed with Queen Mother Frederika for Corfu. There, in Mon Repos, the royal family's summer palace by the sea, she will await the birth of her first child, expected some null in late June or early July...
...mon, Baby." There was obviously something visceral about Elvis and his music. Because soon there were riots in Hartford, Atlanta, and San Jose, Calif. Theaters were demolished in London and São Paulo, Brazil. Sociologists began to view the phenomenon with alarm. Studies showing that Elvis fans had a below-C average were circulated. A Senate subcommittee started to investigate the link between rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency. Pablo Casals condemned rock 'n' roll as "poison put to sound," Frank Sinatra called it a "rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," and Samuel Cardinal Stritch labeled it "tribal rhythms...
...didn't. Instead, rock 'n' roll did. Rejuvenation came in 1960 on the wings of a king-sized twister named Chubby Checker. A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist...