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...nudie show can go on in Mount Ephraim, N.J., a small (pop. 4,863) bedroom community near Camden and Philadelphia. At the Six-Thirteen Corp. "adult bookstore," customers used to be able to pop a token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor...
...militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya has recently funneled through Syria. At a rally in Beirut late last week, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., said that since 1972 there had been Libyan troops among his guerrilla forces in the Mount Hermon area. In the past, Palestinian leaders had denied Libyan involvement. Arafat also said there were Libyan missiles in Lebanon...
...sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly...
...half-hour midday news show. Within a few years, says Corporon, "we could have five or six programs on the air." For the moment, however, INN'S greatest contribution is to knee-high stations like KGSW in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Says General Manager Erick Steffens: "Before, if a Mount St. Helens erupted, or there was an earthquake in Italy, we'd have to put up a slide and try to describe it. Now we don't have to be ashamed...
Western newsmen mount an angry challenge to UNESCO curbs...