Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scenes from seamy bordellos? Havens for desperate voyeurs? No, these were taxpayer-financed operations of the CIA, which was experimenting with drugs during the 1950s and '60s in a project with the sophomoric code name Midnight Climax. The women, apparently moonlighting prostitutes, were paid $100 for each assignment by the CIA. The operation, conducted by CIA alchemists from 1954 until 1963, was part of a quarter-century hunt for a psychogenic philosophers' stone. The purpose was to discover the secret of brainwashing, to protect U.S. agents and gain control over enemy spies...
...many people crowded the banks of the Charles River in Boston, where the high was 102°, that it seemed like any summer Sunday afternoon; actually it was midnight last Wednesday, and the beantowners were just looking for some late-night relief. But not in the city's "Combat Zone," where one prostitute lamented her lack of trade: "They don't want to do it now-it's too hot. They all want air conditioning. You think I got air conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures...
Married. Brenda Vaccaro, 36, throaty-voiced star of Broadway (Cactus Flower), film (Midnight Cowboy's kinky "fur coat lady"; Golden Globe Award for Once Is Not Enough) and television; and William Spenser Bishop, 35, a Sun Valley, Idaho, attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; in Dallas...
...home front. Many of them speak wonderingly of an almost innocent exhilaration triggered by World War II, and how different it was from Viet Nam. Says Stephen Ailes, who came up from Martinsburg, W. Va., to serve in the Office of Price Administration: "You just routinely worked till midnight; you worked Saturdays. You always had in mind the fact that all these guys were in foxholes someplace or sitting out on some cold deck somewhere. All of us had relatives and pals doing that." The Civil War was a unifier in one sense: it brought young Americans out of their...
...commander, referring to the civilian population. Two weeks ago, the E.L.F. sent a radio message to its units inside Asmara advising them that buses were urgently needed to carry wounded soldiers to a field hospital. The response came 24 hours later: eight large Ethiopian buses were hijacked just after midnight, spirited out of the city and driven to an E.L.F. aid station 20 miles away...