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Even on your first trip to a skin flick parlor, what first strikes you is not the bare bosom on the screen, but the people in the audience. There are about fifty lean men, sitting bolt-upright and silent, and scattered evenly throughout the theatre. Un-written skin flick code says no one may sit within three seats of anyone else, even on crowded weekends...
...death, the Liberal leadership-and prime ministership-seemed far more likely to go to Deputy Party Leader William McMahon, Holt's treasurer and second-in-command. But Interim Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party and a longtime personal rival of McMahon, warned that he would bolt the coalition if the Liberals chose McMahon. Amid the resulting party turmoil, Gorton went quickly to work gathering support for his own drive, and gained a full week on everyone else. By the time last week's Liberal Party convention opened in Canberra, he had already built...
...which most of the employees at the girls' company belong. "The problem in British industry," he added, "is outdated, outmoded factories, and outmoded and ill-equipped management." Nonetheless, the workers at the girls' firm defied a union order to stop the free work and even threatened to bolt the union...
...Crossing Roads. A massive slaughter campaign to halt the spread of the disease, which affects almost all hooved animals, has turned Britain's prize stock farms into scenes of tragic carnage. Squads of soldiers, equipped with captive-bolt pistols and high-power rifles, have been killing cattle in infected areas as fast as they can shoot. More than 280,000 cows, bulls, sheep and pigs have already been slaughtered. Tractors pull the piles of carcasses to massive graves, and the pyres of burning animals nightly throw their smoke into the Shropshire sky. Soldiers and airmen have sprayed thousands...
There are, however, some hopeful signs. Volunteer Defense Corps units, a kind of local militia armed with bolt-action rifles, are taking up posts in remote villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over...