Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighty-two years ago, when she was three, Alice Mason crossed the plains from Iowa to Kansas in a covered wagon. Last month she flew to Washington in a jet and, sitting in a wheelchair, made her way to the White House Rose Garden. There she gave Presidential Aide Theodore Marrs a 27-in. by 36-in. tapestry depicting a proud American eagle. Mrs. Mason and eleven other residents of a Topeka nursing home had spent six weeks weaving the wall hanging. The work was their way of celebrating the Bicentennial, and they thought the President should have...
...wasn't exactly like playing under the Florida sun, but the Crimson batmen aren't complaining. They opened the real part of their schedule (the part against teams located north of the Mason-Dixon line) with a 5-4 victory over Boston College at Soldiers Field yesterday, and although there were no palm trees adorning the foul lines, a win is still...
...arrival of Mason City's first massage parlor was not taken so calmly. The town fathers scared off the first owner with an avalanche of building-and safety-code restrictions. But Robert and Monica Baldwin opened Monica's Massage on the same site last month. Baldwin, an ex-boxer, hotly denies any sexual services at Monica's. Word around town is that he is almost correct: voyeurism is the main attraction, with a little masturbatory help here and there. Mayor Kew offers the familiar refrain: "Much to our dismay, there was nothing we could do; just make...
...Mason City has five all-nude bars, a massage parlor, an adult movie-house and a porn bookstore. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman reports that the city's reaction falls "somewhere between resignation and benignity." As Editor Walk puts it, "Nobody's running up and down the streets throwing rocks." Ken Gutterman, 50, owner of Lock Photos, a camera shop, says: "I just accept it, but I've never been in one of those places in my life...
...town." A 29-year-old restaurant owner, who declined to give his name, says he spends $200 or more a year on sex magazines at the local porn shop. Why? "It's entertainment." For better or for worse, porn is now a part of the Mason City scene...