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...racy tabloid that caters to the G.I. and competes with the official military paper, Stars and Stripes. It is not so much the competition that bothers the Pentagon as the fact that the Overseas Weekly never tires of twitting the military establishment. In between gobs of cheesecake and lurid crime stories, it exposes such eccentrics as the colonel who was able to commit an enlisted man to a psychiatric ward because the man had defended his friends at courtsmartial. Or the officers who punished two G.I.s by tying them together and leading them around like dogs on a leash...
With their lurid titles-My Bare Lady, Caught in the Act, Thigh Spy, and Love Is a Four-Letter Word-nudies are featured at more than 400 theaters in the U.S. Dallas has five such houses, Boston four, Detroit eleven, Los Angeles twelve and Manhattan 16. The growth of the nudie drive-ins has created a new menace on the highways: near Dallas, one drive-in owner was ordered to build a view-obstructing wall after three passing motorists careened off the road while gawking at the girlies. Estimates of the yearly haul from these ventures in the skin trade...
Fourth, actual' hard-core pornography of the kind sold only from beneath counters at local taverns. Since much of this material is printed in foreign languages, its classification is a matter of looking scatological -- like the Swedish Karlek, which contains a lurid pink cover photograph of a fully nude couple engaged in cunnilingus...
Despite occasional lurid headlines, most divorces are dull, sad and tediously routine. So when the case of Raymond v. Marie Bivins came up for settlement in Rapid City, S. Dak., last week, Court Reporter Frances Geyerman flicked on her tape recorder and prepared to be bored. She was almost shot to death instead...
...South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked by the clash of armies and awash in internecine blood...