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Fidel Castro has never been a swinger. Nightclubs, booze, fancy food, fast crowds-he shunned them all like a capitalist plague, and frowned on any of his lieutenants who failed to do the same. Last week Castro suddenly did more than frown. He announced the arrest of at least 20 "playboy officials" who were giving more of their time to the cocktail circuit than to Communism. Among them: Major Efigenio Al-meijeiras, a member of the party's Central Committee, Castro's vice minister of the armed forces, and the military's second in command-after Fidel...
When the girls were singing their hits, giving the fans what they came to hear, carefully breathing those "baby-babies" into the hushed gym, everything was so fine. Unfortunately, that was not all the time. The Supremes' opener was "Put on a Happy Face," a swinger of a show-time that made them sound like the McGuire Sisters in an Ed Sullivan Show production number. Diana Ress's version of "Make Someone Happy" was pleasant to listen to her strong husky voice sounded exactly like Nancy Wilson's, which was exactly not what her rock 'n' roll fans had almost...
...friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...
...bored, vacant-eyed teen-agers who hang out at the drive-ins and juke joints along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard, Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 23, was known as a swinger. A well-muscled onetime state high-school gymnastics champion, Smitty always had wheels, money, tall tales and an inexhaustible supply of available girls' phone numbers...
Marriage on the Rocks is the most recent effort to capture for posterity the fanny-pinching sophistication of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. In a coy casting switch, Sinatra plays a bored, busy advertising brain who has spent 19 years with his own wife (Deborah Kerr). "What a swinger he was in the old days," moons Deborah. Now he bedevils his teen-age daughter (played by Sinatra's own daughter Nancy) and deplores his rakish company vice president (Martin), an aging torn whose bachelor flat is strewn with molted bikinis...