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...about erecting a saloon at the needle's base called the Chicken-Out Inn. The dining spot above, called the Eye of the Needle, enables the visitor to watch the lakes and mountains glide by while he dines on such regional specialties as Dungeness crab, tiny, wild-flavored Olympia oysters, and grilled salmon steaks at $6.75 table-d'hote. Since the central core does not revolve, a waitress going into the kitchen for an order has to check an indicator on the wall that moves at the same speed as the dining room in order to locate customers...
...most concerned is Maurice Girodias, a 42-year-old Parisian who runs Olympia Press, the world's most notorious publisher of English-language pornography. Girodias, an amiable, vague, unbusinesslike man, plays the role of a monster of depravity with vigor but no consistency, registering at different times belligerence, shy embarrassment, prosperous self-satisfaction, artiness, guilt, and a well-practiced sinister leer. Last week it was artiness; he would like nothing better than to be put out of business, he said-in fact Olympia's sole aim has been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make...
...puritan, who thinks all nonclinical mention of sex is evil, and the libertine, who is a puritan turned inside out, is the broad-minded man, who is not very helpful either. His definition of pornography is clear, but only to him: "Anything that shocks me too much." Olympia's output shocks almost everyone, at least momentarily. But in the view of New England-born Author Akbar, "The books have so much filth that they're not filthy. They're zany, like the Marx Brothers...
...lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by the Senate when Harry Truman nominated him to the National Security Resources Board in 1949 but finally won confirmation as a member of the Federal Power Commission; as a consequence of injuries suffered in an auto accident in July; in Olympia, Wash...
...putter that did it. In 90 holes at Olympia Fields, he three-putted not a single green. Barber, a scrawny little fellow-5 ft. 5 in., 137 Ibs. -turned pro at 24 after licking every amateur around the Jacksonville, Ill. farm where he was raised. Recognizing his physical disadvantages. Jerry Barber patiently fitted himself for the game. He built up his wrists and shoulders with a daily regimen of weight lifting and calisthenics, spent hours exercising with a homemade contraption-a lo-lb. weight tied to a broom handle. Wherever he played for the money, he painstakingly stalked the course...