Word: swingingest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta, one of the newest, swingingest hotpots is Penrod's, a lushly decorated, laid-back "environment." There are also The Foxhunt and The Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra...
...swingingest bars in Pretoria these days is in the Boulevard Hotel, which is home to diplomatic and technical delegates from black African nations. White Pretorians go there simply to meet blacks-something that they would not have dared to do even a year ago. Even more startling, Pretoria's hostesses now consider it a social must to have at least one black man at a party; as a result, the only resident black ambassador, Malawi's sherry-sipping, highly professional Joe Kachingwe, is being run ragged. Kachingwe's six-year-old daughter Chipo recently became the first...
...state relations. Much of the new emphasis has centered on Africa. The Chinese have started work on the $400 million Tanzania-Zambia railroad, which is the largest aid project anywhere in the world. Fully 13,000 Chinese workers will be in Tanzania by summer. These days one of the swingingest places in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott is the Chinese cultural mission, which features French movies instead of propaganda films. In Zanzibar, where there are 400 Chinese in the aid mission, the latest building project is a rum distillery. Even imperial Ethiopia has established diplomatic relations with China...