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Last month came a ruling that threatened another aspect of bedtime life in Chile. Amid charges of white slavery and dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No sooner had the order been issued than the madams of Santiago descended on the presidential palace in a mass-protest demonstration. They informed Under Secretary of the Interior Juan Hamilton that unless the ban was removed, they would organize into a sort of body politic to oppose the government...
Giving in, the government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...
...sounded like a trip from Sodom to Gomorrah. Before he sailed from the U.S., Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, had ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said...
...Roxbury. Within a few months he had picked up the adornments that lent to ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing amounts. Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked...
...pictured Malcolm's death as a major setback in the fight for Negro rights in America. But these reactions, said Carl Rowan, then head of the United States Information Agency, were based on "misinformation." All the praise for Malcolm X, he said, was for "an ex-convict and ex-dope peddler, who became a racial fanatic." And so in the United States, the reaction to Malcolm's performance in the sixties was colored by his record in the forties, and only half of his story was discussed...