Word: playboyism
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With a nudie of Scandinavian Actress Julie Ege on the cover and one of Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner on a center foldout, the current issue of Britain's 129-year-old humor magazine Punch is startling the stuffing out of some Establishment shirts. The Playboy parody, put together with the aid of Publisher Hefner, also includes a pendulous feature on the Girls of Poland and leering homage to Perennial Illustrator Nicolas Varga, whose naked ladies have become an American institution...
...streets are paved with gold and the walls are encrusted with jewels. The myth persists in some quarters that the Christian church resembles that sort of heaven on earth. Tales of untold wealth are propagated even by churchmen. The late Episcopal bishop James A. Pike once wrote wildly in Playboy that the Society of Jesus owned 51% of the Bank of America. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has predicted that tax-sheltered churches would some day be able to control the entire U.S. economy...
...Afros are beautiful," says Dolores Martin, a Playboy Bunny, "but they're like hot pants. Some people can wear them, but others can't." Ruth Ginyard, a Los Angeles boutique owner, agrees...
...Patman's complaints may liven up the banker's-gray image. "Has the Federal Reserve System ever paid for Federal Reserve clubs to have parties at Playboy clubs, complete with appropriately attired bunnies?" Patman demanded, having already received reports on the subject from member banks. Replied Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns: "I didn't know there was that much imagination on the part of any of my colleagues...
Great Special Cordon. Could even that much change have been accomplished by a roly-poly young playboy known to his critics as "Baskethead"? Hardly, and there are signs that Jean-Claude is not even enjoying the role of figurehead. He is not allowed to ride his Harley-Davidson and has to settle instead for joyrides in his sporty blue Toyota or flashy Lamborghini, usually escorted by a caravan of scowling secret policemen. One of the few pleasures of office was his acceptance recently of the Chinese Nationalist Order of the Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part...