Word: sambas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even by Philippine standards, it had been quite a convention. Garcia's task force took over the fancier Dewey Boulevard's nightclubs to entertain the delegates. Everything, including the samba-happy hostesses, was on the house. Delegates were met at airports, bus and rail stations by Garcia men who eagerly pressed a little convention spending money (from about $150 to $250, depending on the delegate, said Garcia's opponents) into their hands, guided them off forthwith to Dewey Boulevard...
...high-fee society doctor. Young for a Brazilian President, he looks even younger, with catlike grace and glowing vigor. His smile rivals French Actor Fernandel's in expanse. He loves society parties, especially if there is dancing. Tangos and slow foxtrots are his favorites, but he can samba with the lightest-footed-showing a distinct preference for pretty partners. At a ball a few years ago, the late President Getulio Vargas jokingly asked Kubitschek why he didn't ask some homely women to dance. "I do, Mr. President," he quipped, "but only during an election campaign...
...remained to be evoked, but Victor kept on releasing Christmassy disks until it had the subject covered in a world tour de force. The route: from Europe, with Italian Jingle Bells (Campanella, campanella, solo bella . . .) sung by Lou Monte, to South America with Christmas in Rio, tricked out in samba tempo by Tony Martin, to a cornfed, shuffling western version of Jingle Bells, played on guitar by Chet Atkins...
...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
Delegates of Brazil's biggest political party gathered in Rio last week and noisily chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...