Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial activities as petrochemical production, steelmaking, shipbuilding and fertilizer manufacture. Not surprisingly, the plans have whetted great interest abroad. Moslems who arrived at Jeddah in record numbers last month on their way to make the annual hadj or pilgrimage to Mecca had to share facilities with another brand of pilgrim. These had business suits and attache cases instead of shaved heads and white prayer garments, and they were seeking slices of the vast petrodollar expenditures...
From the stage of Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a seedy burlesque house in the city's newly designated "Combat Zone" for sex films and ecdysiast exhibitions, a shapely, silken-gowned Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine Firecracker," had a surprise for her audience. "I'd like you to meet somebody," she said, then called to the wings: "Mr. Mills, Mr. Mills! Where are you?" Onto the stage strode Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Daigh Mills, 65, the redoubtable Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Placing a hand on Fanne's shoulder, Mills began a brief exchange...
...Honey, if I was Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year...
Foxe, the stripper who gained national recognition Oct. 7 by jumping into the Tidal Basin after police stopped the car she was riding in with Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) is currently appearing at the Pilgrim Burlesque Theatre in Boston...
...Steffens was one of the nation's best-known journalists. The Shame of the Cities, a book based on his exposes of big-city corruption, helped arm the short-lived reform movement whose grinning figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt. "The man with the muckrake" is what T.R. (borrowing from Pilgrim's Progress) called Steffens, thus giving generations of crossword-puzzle workers the nine-letter word muckraker...