Word: ner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...magazine history. Since that is below the circulation guarantee of 6 million, Playboy has offered to give credits to advertisers; ad revenue in the past six months has run 7.5% below a year earlier. A basic problem, ironically, seems to be the success of the sexual revolution that Hef ner worked so hard to promote-and that now makes Playboy, once so bold, seem curiously oldfashioned. It is outdone in kinky eroticism these days by a swarm of competitors, notably Penthouse, which has done so well that it will raise its circulation guarantee to advertisers from 3.5 million...
Thus Beverlee Manley, an analyst for an assembly committee, does not al low her lobbyist husband to buy her din ner. There is some doubt that Sarah Michael, a consultant for another committee, could legally accept an engagement ring from Bernie Mikell, her boy friend, since he works as a lobbyist for the California Savings and Loan League. The state's assemblymen have sworn off the free orange juice, dough nuts, ice cream and milk that traditionally have been donated by outside interests...
...exposing first a sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part ner's bullet...
Still, The Seven-Ups is by far the best of the current blotter of cop movies. It deals more directly than any, including Serpico (TIME, Dec. 31), with the criminal pathology of some police men. Roy Scheider, the leader of the Seven-Ups (and Gene Hackman's part ner in The French Connection), has just the right grave, anonymous face for the part, the right quality of eruptive violence. There are no heroes here. The movie has been made with the dogged intensity that cops can bring to their work, which explains why you have a feeling of having...