Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beetle Bailey, the comic strip dealing with the vicissitudes of a reluctant draftee, has never raised much of a chuckle from the Army. The official armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes refused to run it from 1954 to 1959 because it took too flip a view of Army brass. Last month Beetle was again banished by the paper's Pacific edition...
...trouble began when Cartoonist Mort Walker decided his 20-year-old strip needed to catch up with the times. A black character was the obvious answer. Says Walker: "I wanted a strong character who is proud of being black, but I knew it had to be a funny character to go along with the rest of the strip." Walker named him Lieut. Flap and gave him an Afro hairstyle, a goatee and a brain power that seems a bare millivolt greater than the low-powered intellects around him. His rank requires white subordinates to call...
...appeared again as an NBC-TV adaptation. The film Patton has grossed $9,000,000 in nine months. Last week the latest and most patriotic show yet, a musical revue titled So Proudly We Hail, was playing at-of all places -the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip...
...worst bargain on the street represents a pillar of the neighborhood's economy: pornographic magazines-20 to 35 pages of sexually explicit pictures for $3 and up-and high-priced peep shows, strip joints and "adult" movies. Fed by a clientele that includes hustlers, briefcase-carrying businessmen and tourists, the street is riding a sex boom strong enough to pay the rent on some of the city's most expensive real estate. As restrictions have relaxed, the pornography market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles...
...changes within the region, population shifts, growth patterns-the study offers a framework for logical action. It is already yielding some benefits. Detroit Edison will place its power transmission lines down utility corridors proposed by the planner. Michigan's highway department will henceforth leave room on the center strip of new expressways for alternate forms of future transit...