Word: lido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before her delivery, was not seen again. A U.N. spokesman admitted the firing, said the rounds were aimed at a Katangese army camp 800 yds. beyond the hospital. But some of the shells even hit a Roman Catholic cathedral in an African residential section, and others exploded near the Lido Hotel, a U.N. rest camp that was eventually abandoned to the Katangese...
...what won him fame is the Mass that for the past three years he has been holding at 4:30 a.m. for around 500 show people, croupiers and early-bird tourists of the 24-hour town. Crowley held it each Sunday in the Stardust Hotel, which features the "Lido de Paris 1961 Revue," with 13 bare-breasted girls. Such a broadminded willingness to bring religion to The Strip won him much gratitude: Wilbur Clark, owner of the Desert Inn Hotel, donated a $185.000 site near The Strip for a Catholic church, and some still anonymous benefactor gave Father Crowley...
Whatever the numerous reasons for the fall-off-world tensions, recession, eagerness to visit Asian or other off-beat tourist spots-the fact is that the once-favored European gathering places for Americans are getting fewer dollars. In Paris' Lido cabaret, which last year turned away people by the hundreds every night, any customer can get a table now. Luxury hotels such as the Ritz, George V, Crillon and Plaza Athenée have dropped 15% in American bookings, and some of the lesser hotels are off 50% to 60%. The big travel agencies, American Express and Cooks, report...
...were undisturbed by Communist victories. Without hindrance, the Pathet Lao set up a machine gun in a nearby village and opened fire on U.S. helicopters approaching the city airport. More excitement was caused by a new Greek stripteaser at a local cabaret and by the notice posted at the Lido nightclub: "Just arrived from Thailand-ten fresh, young girls with medical certificates...
Tassels & Snakes. The tonier places present lavish shows that are far more suggestive than anything legally staged in the U.S., more intimate and lively than Paris' Lido. Audiences sit in respectful silence as side-stage pianos strike Westminster-sized chords, lights evanesce, and wardrobes migrate to the floor (seldom, even in the lower-class establishments, is the air besmirched with pleas to "tyke it awff...