Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to friends, Fanne formerly performed at the Silver Slipper, a sleazy Washington nightclub shoehorned between a pornographic bookstore and a pornographic theater. On the club's window are photos of scantily clad women in provocative poses and a sign promising AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF BEAUTIFUL, CURVACEOUS GIRLS. Inside, dancers shake to the heavy beat of music thundering from amplifiers and strip to their G strings, as B-girls cadge $2.75 drinks from male customers...
Soon after she met Mills at the Silver Slipper in July 1973, Fanne gave up her $500-a-week job and now has no visible means of support. That August, Mills and his wife Polly moved into an apartment in Fanne's luxury building, the Crystal Towers in Arlington, Va. According to club employees, Mills, usually with Fanne, visited the Silver Slipper about twice a month, where they sat at a small table near an emergency fire exit. Sometimes he ordered magnums of champagne for Fanne and drinks for the house, rarely less than $100 worth in a single evening...
...China's new national heroes. Among them: a militiaman from Sinkiang who helped capture a Soviet helicopter that strayed-or intruded-across the Chinese border last March. China's insouciant mood in fact contrasted markedly with the tone of Soviet pronouncements; just before Peking's silver anniversary, the Moscow press had let fly the ultimate in ideological insults, for the first time terming Peking's policy "anti-Communist." The Chinese scarcely seemed to pay attention. Their purpose was to establish an every thing-as-normal mood...
...Connor's three-night burst of invective, which must be a bizarre first for television news, was the high point of an incestuous melodrama starring the crusty silver-maned commentator, Illinois politicians, station and network executives, the FCC and a couple of public-spirited wives...
...Centennial, Michener (3) 3-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (6) 5-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (4) 6-Watership Down, Adams (5) 7-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 8-Cashelmara, Howafch (9) 9-The War Between the Tates, Lorie (8) 10-The Silver Bears, Erdman (10) NONFICTION 1 -All the President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (4) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (5) 6-More...