Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington morals squad, Privates Lamonte P. Drouillard and R. L. Graham, walked through the front door of the "Y" into the lobby, then descended to the basement men's room. A 9-ft. by 11-ft. spot reeking of disinfectant and stale cigars, the room is a notorious hangout for deviates. During one five-hour period earlier this year, police arrested eight homosexuals there, including two college professors and several Government workers...
...extortion.) Asked how Sonny happened to sign away 55% of his interest in his personal-promotion company (worth an estimated $100,000) to Margolis, Sam puffed on his cigar and patiently explained that Listen had run up a tab of "thousands of dollars" in his restaurant -a favorite hangout for students from the nearby University of Pennsylvania. "I trusted him," said Sam. "Sonny used to play checkers with the college students." Liston cut him in purely out of gratitude, said Margolis: "I am his best friend, at least in Philadelphia...
...Nasser's guest for a while, then departed for Red China, where he received training in guerrilla tactics. Secretly returning to Kwilu province last summer, he organized military training camps in the dense forests, made frequent trips to Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo and the hangout for exiled Congolese extremists plotting against the central government. There, Mulele presumably obtained funds and equipment from Red Chinese and Soviet agents, for when Congo police came upon Mulele's outposts, they found copies of Mao Tse-tung's handbook on guerrilla warfare, Soviet-made cameras, a combat radio...
Tortured by self-doubt and the derision of the public press, Pollock gave up the brush for the bottle. His forays from his remote Long Island studio into New York frequently ended in barroom squabbles at the abstract expressionists' hangout, the old Cedar Bar. Painter Barnett Newman tried to keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill...
...turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served it up at lunch for her husband, ten-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter; by next morning...