Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line. If the big oil companies were gouging the American people, Baker declared, they risked nationalization. Baker was wildly against even the thought of such a measure, but as a professional pol he sensed an ugly mood. His warning nearly cracked the picture windows in Houston's Petroleum Club. Baker's mail showed...
...Anthony Toby Moffett, 34. "What happens when a Nader Raider comes to Congress?" mused the Connecticut Democrat in 1975, shortly after his election. Four years later, Moffett admits: "I'm trying to find the fine line between screaming all the time and being a member of the club." Last January he outmaneuvered three senior Representatives to win the chairmanship of the powerful Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. A second-generation American with Lebanese grandparents, Moffett, who studied government at Syracuse University and Boston College, is a longtime defender of consumer rights. He has spoken out against high energy...
...comic routines. He is up at 7:30 a.m. and does 20 minutes of exercises. At 10 he drives to his office in Hollywood and sits down with his four writers to work on new material. By 12:30 he is having lunch at the Hillcrest Country Club where he sits with other show business gentry. Groucho Marx and Al Jolson used to be regulars. Says Burns: "There was a time when not much sturgeon could be brought into California. But Jolson always had some in the kitchen anyway. So when he sat down, I would compliment him on what...
Just as successful-if slightly more circumspect-is the Pit Stop Lounge in Coldwater, Mich., some 100 miles west of Detroit. Like the Sugar Shack, this establishment is owned by a woman-a former bank clerk named Glenda Brewer-but here male customers are banned from the club during the two-hour show. What they miss is a group of dancers called Fast Freddy and the Playboys, who strip down to bikini briefs and then swivel through the throng, always staying slightly clad and out of reach. "I think they're terrific," says Kay Love, 45, a factory worker...
...course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent exposure and the club fined for not having an entertainment license. Though booked elsewhere, Fast Freddy and the Playboys are still waiting in the wings at the Pit Stop, and nearly 100 loyal patrons have staged a protest rally. Complains Stempien: "We're put off to think that we can't have...