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...third Tuesday of every month in the fall and winter of 1980, a bizarre rendezvous allegedly took place in Washington, D.C. A Navy officer in a plain civilian suit carried a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist into the parlor of "Madame Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking at top-secret photographs and charts, the clairvoyant attempted to predict the movements of Soviet submarines off the East Coast. Madame Zodiac's payment: $400 cash...
...money and jobs are manna to many Indians. Cherokees of North Carolina have cleared $500,000 in profits from the 65,000 players who have come since 1982 to their parlor in a converted textile mill. In Florida, where the Seminoles began bingo in 1979, the 1,800-member tribe this year raked in $4.2 million from three joints. "We used to make trinkets," says Tribal Chairman James Billie, a former professional alligator wrestler, "but we didn't really have the marketing skills to make a go of that...
...miles northwest of Chicago. Not the twilight zone exactly, but not the main stem either. With a little imaginative set decoration, the Schaumburg Snuggery could be converted to a roadhouse from a John O'Hara novel; a juke joint from the Big Band era; a belly-up beer parlor with a platform for a three-piece oldies combo; or the only place in America where no one has heard that disco is dead. A perfect period set-for any period-if it were not for those screens...
More often Hardwick turns her ideas into parlor tricks, lessons in obfuscation...
...short distance away, a P.R.A. soldier had gone to a funeral parlor, carrying the body of the downed U.S. helicopter pilot. He decided against leaving it, and carried it to the beach. The funeral director said, "I have no new bodies, just the ten from our own executions." An orderly said that when Fort Rupert was hit by a naval bombardment early Tuesday morning, some of the soldiers had fled to the hospital and hurriedly exchanged their uniforms for pajamas. Of the 30 casualties, perhaps half had arrived at the hospital within the first hour of the invasion...