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Scotch & P'ai Chiao. Deeply respected in a man's world, gravel-voiced Dolly drank Scotch, gambled heavily in all-night games of p'ai chiao (poker with dominoes) at men's clubs and pubs. Her behavior scandalized the women of Chinatown, but outwardly Dolly did not seem to give a yen that she was shattering the Chinese tradition of stoic, subservient women. Then two weeks ago, Dolly Gee was arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from her bank. She said she had stolen not for profit but because "I come from a family of bound...
...magnetic; sitting on the floor in a circle of twenty adulatory college students he is nearly irresistible. Within a half hour he was calling students by name; his voice, which had been familiar and accented over the mike in Burr B, here assumed the mellow intimacy of an all-night disc jockey. With the students in the living room, he was at home, scratching his head, wrinkling his brow, perpetually relighting his pipe; in his element. Interpersonal contact is Goodman's religion (it is, he asserts, his primary impetus in sexual activity with both men and women...
Under the present rules system, juniors' and seniors' overnight sign-out privileges are unlimited. Freshmen and sophomores must request permission from their head residents for each all-night sign...
...resident suggested that all-night apartment sign-out were not "wise procedure." Another said that such sign-outs by upperclassmen could have "a strong effect on freshmen." Since the administration made no policy covering the situation last year, one resident said, girls "assumed that the college didn't care." But, he emphasized, "the college does care...
Lights Up. The morality crusade has a long way to go. Tokyo still has 1,200 all-night tearooms, cozily dark and equipped with commodious private boxes, which offer all kinds of opportunities. Detectives make nightly rounds of the tearooms to enforce lighting regulations (minimum illumination after 11 p.m.: ten luxes, or enough to read a newspaper one foot away - not that many patrons spend their time reading). But when the police walk in armed with a light meter, the hat-check girl in some tearooms pushes a hidden but ton that quickly increases the illumination to its legal level...