Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Elephants. With ten of their band held in Cleveland without bail on charges of first-degree murder and another lying in state (in full Angel regalia with his cycle by the coffin) in a Lower East Side Manhattan funeral parlor, the Angels might have been expected to lie low for a while. Yet even as dozens of the clan gathered to pay tribute to "Groover" Coffey, some 15 to 30 Angels pushed their way into a nearby leather goods shop and began to rough up the owner. When his 17-year-old girl friend appeared, one Angel reportedly said...
...panel (TIME, March 8). Assigned to the massive 25-sq.-mi. Long Binh supply depot as post commander in 1968, Castle discovered that Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at the depot, had authorized Mme. Phuong to open an on-post steam bath and massage parlor. Cole has since been demoted to colonel and stripped of his decorations by the Army for his part in Viet Nam service club frauds...
...McCleavey's body is on display in the parlor of her house, until her son Hal and his friend the undertaker Dennis, who have just stolen a pile of "loot," decide to hide her corpse in a cabinet and to bury in her coffin, with full Roman Catholic death rites, the money they want to hide. Truscott, a Scotland Yard sleuth on the trail of Fay, a nurse who has poisoned Mrs. McCleavey and killed seven successive husbands in one decade, appears on the scene, calls himself the Water Commissioner Inspector, and ferrets out clues about Mrs. McCleavey's death...
...rice and maize. Some Thais also argue that the war lowered their country's morals. G.I.s spent $22 million last year while on leave in Thailand, and Bangkok's prostitute population doubled to 20,000. Their income has done little to stimulate the economy. Typically, a massage parlor girl keeps just 75? of her $3-to-$5 fee,* and the rest is taken by pimps and bar owners. Those profits in turn have been invested in constructing more hotels and saloons, which are now closing up. Complains the manager of the Lady Bar and Company Turkish Bath...
Tuttle holds a city health license, and his place is outfitted with sterilizers and examining tables; the overall effect is more that of a doctor's office than a tattoo parlor. The curious are permitted to look on as Tuttle imprints hands, forearms, manly chests or shoulders. But some 40% of his customers are women, and when a lady wants a tattoo in an intimate spot, Tuttle asks her to bring a friend as a witness−for his own protection−and closes the door...