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Removing one's clothing in public for pay is a livelihood that is nearly as venerable as prostitution; and, like prostitution, it is almost entirely limited to women. What prompts the estimated 7,000 stripteasers in the U.S. to bare all-or at least nearly all-to a theater full of several hundred men? Seeking to answer that question, two Case Western Reserve University sociologists have reached some tentative conclusions. Writing in Social Problems magazine, James K. Skipper Jr. and Charles H. McCaghy report that the girls disrobe in public out of an unrequited need for parental-especially fatherly...
Caragianes generally comes into the store late in the morning and is there most of the day until closing time. He has other income from an apartment building he rents, but he said that it was not nearly enough to support him. "This is my livelihood." he said with a smile...
CONSERVATIVE RESPONSIBILITY (1934): I think we can define a series of minimum principles which the conservatives must acknowledge before there can be any hope that our heritage of liberty can be conserved by the conservatives. The first is that a livelihood must be guaranteed to every man. Less than a year ago I was talking with one of the keenest and finest bankers I know. He was scandalized by this proposal. In my own mind there is no doubt whatever that if [the banker] could, with a fresh mind, set out to discover what modern America is, he would come...
...noble experiment," and local businessmen foresee an economic boom. But the men on Hilton Head expect a pall of fumes and a flood of fouled water. Fighting mad, they have forged an alliance with fishermen and resort owners, who are equally worried-pollution could wipe out their livelihood. They argue that tourism alone will provide 40% of the county's income this year and that it is senseless to jeopardize an already thriving industry...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...