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Foxe, the stripper who gained national recognition Oct. 7 by jumping into the Tidal Basin after police stopped the car she was riding in with Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) is currently appearing at the Pilgrim Burlesque Theatre in Boston...
Despite the bad publicity from the "Tidal Basin" incident, Wilbur D. Mills (D.-Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Sommittee, won a narrow victory over Republican Judy Petty, returning to Congress for his 19th term...
...that was before his recent misadventure. Last week Mills emerged from nine days of nursing his abrased dignity and flew home. On the plane, a CBS reporter questioned Mills about his Argentine-born friend Annabella Battistella, 38, the onetime stripper who wound up in Washington's Tidal Basin after dashing from Mills' car. "Was there anything between you and the young lady?" asked the reporter. "No," replied the Congressman, "I ought to be flattered at my age of 65 for anybody to ask me such a question...
...Lincoln Continental bore five people toward the Jefferson Memorial. Among them was an odd couple: an intoxicated, aging man with a badly scratched face and bloody nose and a hysterical, curvaceous woman. When police halted the car, the woman leaped out and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin, a 10-ft.-deep estuary of the Potomac River. The man stumbled out after her, just before an officer dragged her to safety. When the police refused to let him drive her home, the man shouted: "I'm a Congressman, and I'll have you demoted...
...Mink, 46, was elected to Congress from Hawaii in 1964, her husband John quit his job as a hydrologist with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, won a fellowship to Johns Hopkins University and later joined a Washington-based scientific consulting firm that regularly sends him to the Pacific basin...