Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. John Cogley, 60, Roman Catholic journalist and author (Catholic America); of a. heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various points in his career an editor of Commonweal, a liberal Catholic journal, and founder of the Center Magazine, the journal of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Cogley also served as an aide in John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and was instrumental in engineering a meeting between Kennedy and a number of prominent Protestant clergy in Houston, which defused Catholicism as a campaign issue. Late in life (1973), Cogley left the Catholic Church because...
Every major U.S. city has its Santa Monica Boulevard. In Chicago, it is called Wells Street. In Minneapolis, it is Hennepin Avenue. San Francisco has its Broadway, and New York City its Times Square. Santa Monica Boulevard is neither the busiest nor the worst. It is only typical...
...knifes through Los Angeles' West Hollywood residential district, Santa Monica becomes a garish, grubby, milelong gauntlet of sex-book stalls, theaters and 8-mm. peep shows for voyeurs, and massage parlors and sexual encounter centers for those who want direct action. The Boulevard is a flexible ribbon of smut that expands or contracts according to the apathy or indignation of the surrounding stucco-house neighborhoods. It is, in a way, a bit of the Old West, a semilawless, laissez-faire street of chance, a zone of temptation and humiliation, harshly lit by neon signs that crackle their messages: ADULT, ENTER...
...profit motive reigns unchecked along Santa Monica Boulevard. The markup on dildos is 600%, and the nudie magazines that retailers buy at $3 each sell for $6 to $8. Not everything, however, is what it seems. The Institute of Oral Love mainly dispenses talk, and Wild Mary's Massage provides local stimulation only if the customer pays extra. On the north side of the street is the "Beefcake Zone" where male hustlers loiter outside the homosexual theaters. The south side belongs to the straights, 70% of whom seem to be Japanese tourists. And from the open doors waft odors...