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...numbers that clients can request. Business is strictly legitimate-hands off, no dates. Former prostitutes are allowed to work at the Orchid, but if they are caught soliciting they are asked to leave. A few girls think the whole idea is rather kinky. As No. 32, who has since quit in disgust, admits, "Working here did amazing things to my ego. I don't have that good a body, but men kept complimenting me. I had visions of being Raquel Welch. I had regular customers that I had to arrange classes around. I always came over here after lunch...
...PRESS. Through Christiana Securities, the family owns 100% of the stock in the company that publishes the state's two largest and most influential newspapers, the Wilmington Morning News and Evening Journal. Creed Black, editor from 1960 to 1964, quit when a Du Pont public relations man was put in above him; the owners, said Black, obviously wanted "house organs instead of newspapers." But now, insists Irenée Jr., the editors "call the shots the way they see them." He says that if the papers were sold to two separate owners, as the report recommends, they would probably...
Faithful readers who have already followed Supermac through three volumes of adventures will find him this time at the peak of his powers. The U.S. has let Britain down at Suez. Anthony Eden has quit. But Harold, as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, moves in to rebuild the Anglo-American alliance on the basis of his old friendship with Dwight Eisenhower. He also pilots the ship of state through the storms of crisis in Lebanon, an incipient trade war in Europe, a Gaullist coup in France. Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary...
Among its best efforts to date was a piece by Charlotte Curtis of the New York Times on the resignation of former Harper's editor Willie Morris last spring. She argued that the real reason Morris had to quit was his erratic stewardship of the magazine, and not the financial interference he cited in his resignation statement. Though [MORE] sometimes misses the mark, its current issue contains a well-researched if slightly overstated article by the Institutional Investor's Chris Welles, condemning the New York Times for putting out "a business and financial section of astonishing mediocrity," which...
Cisco (Kris Kristofferson) kept money in his jeans for a while by dealing dope, but he quit after getting busted twice. His arresting officer (Gene Hackman) visits him one day with a proposition. The cop is in need of money fast. He has got hold of a shipment of high-quality grass and wants Cisco to deal it. Then maybe he will shade his testimony on the two busts to Cisco's advantage. Cisco loads the stash into his guitar case and hits the street...