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...Atlantic City, Gambino family members are scouting hotels that are up for sale and have invested in some bars and pizza parlors. U.S. Attorney Jonathan Goldstein expects increased Mob involvement in Atlantic City service industries: linen supply, liquor distribution and the like. The Gambino men are pushing aside local gangsters who work for Angelo Bruno, Philadelphia's ailing and unimposing Mafia don. Had Bruno been stronger, the invasion might not have occurred. To mollify Bruno, the New Yorkers are willing to toss his people some Atlantic City scraps?services like garbage hauling, vending machines and pest control...
...Stevens boycott has received the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and a number of leading southern civil rights advocates. Locally, a student committee last week sent letters to the Harvard Coop and the Harvard Student Agencies Linen Service asking them to observe the boycott. So far neither the Coop nor HSA has said that it will...
...pops to the telephone. Room service again? No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins. "Oh, hi," says Linda. "Listen, is it O.K. if I come to dinner in jeans?" It has not occurred to her to identify herself. She has a total and startling lack of arrogance. Also, just now, a lack of success with the Edwardian Room. Sputtering is heard. No jeans. "Well, thanks," says Linda...
...gunslinger of words, Tom Stoppard shoots to kill with laughter. Dirty Linen, with its insert piece New-Found-Land, is probably the most killingly funny play he has written, though it is also the slenderest. Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead may be the sturdiest because it is built on Hamlet, and Travesties the wittiest since it springs from The Importance of Being Earnest...
...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...