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...Bought evidence is bound to be suspect evidence." The notion that Operation Peep was in the interest of national security holds little water; Lambton's career was doomed before the press intervened. Journalist and M.P. Winston Churchill, Sir Winston's grandson, argued: "Saying that hiding photographers in brothel keepers' cupboards is in the best traditions of journalism is really grotesque." In this case, it is also harmful to the British press's hope that laws limiting the disclosure of government information and certain legal proceedings will be relaxed. Said Conservative M.P. William Deedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rivals in the Muck | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...wise old Cuban peasant made everyone stop talking in a small circle of exiles. He asked: "Have you ever heard of a brothel where the madam was a virgin?" R. GARCÍA-BÁRCENA Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1973 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...detail for its own sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when some players visit a famous brothel peopled by wet-nurses, who sing lullabies for $2.50 a tune. These scenes don't work as "Literature", probably because they're so damn fun to read...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: The Whiteness of the Ball | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...single-room-and-bath apartments and such amenities as tennis courts, bowling alleys, beer cellar, nightclub, sauna, solarium-and a fully equipped room for sadomasochists. Arabella is what its operator, Kurt Kohls of Ulm, likes to call an "Eros center" and what almost everyone else would call a brothel. Kohls already runs four such centers in West Germany and Austria, and hopes to open other Arabellas in Luxembourg, Holland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and East Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex Mit Herz | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...less than stable. He had five wives, one of whom was a heavy-drinking Boston Brahmin, Trapnell's mother. They divorced when Trapnell was four, and he moved from home to home, including a stay in Panama, where he says his father, the commander, moonlighted by running a brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Return of Dr. Jekyll | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

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