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...graduate Physics student runs into her thesis adviser in a Boston convenience store. They don't exchange platitudes, or discuss the recent discovery of a new sub-particle. Rather she signs his Playboy and puts her head on his shoulder for photographers...
Back in the days when men drank dry martinis and smoked unfiltered cigarettes with abandon, ogling the scantily clad, buxom Bunnies at the Playboy Club was a popular pastime. Times have changed. Playboy last week announced that when its flagship New York City club reopens in November, the employees will include male waiters, dubbed Rabbits. In an effort to lure female patrons, the ! company (fiscal 1985 sales: $192 million) hopes to hire "attractive and athletically built" men. Company officials refuse to say how the Rabbits will be dressed but insist that they will keep their pants on. Among the current...
...changes come as Playboy attempts to revive a beleaguered business. Today there are only a dozen Playboy clubs, down from 22 in the mid-1960s. The clubs prosper mainly in smaller towns, including Buffalo and Des Moines, where martinis and ogling are still in style...
...Tupelo, Miss., a clergyman in the liberal United Methodist Church who nonetheless exudes a Fundamentalist spirit in running the National Federation for Decency. In 1982, the group boycotted, with mixed success, television advertisers who sponsored offensive shows. Wildmon also organizes believers in many cities to get the Playboy channel off local cable. Sex on television, says Wildmon, "threatens the very continued existence of a society based on the Judeo-Christian perspective...
Wildmon has backed picketing in many towns to get Playboy and Penthouse magazines off the counters of neighborhood stores. Says Topeka Pastor Carl Bush about the local 7-Eleven outlets: "All we're asking is that they put them behind the counter so kids can't get them. But they won't even do that." Next Monday, Falwell and several thousand marchers are expected to participate in a Labor Day protest at the Dallas headquarters of Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven...