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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Williston Basin of North Dakota and eastern Montana, an important producing area in the 1950s. They are also exploring for oil in the Overthrust Belt, which runs down the Rocky Mountains, and they are going after gas in Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and central Louisiana. Across the country, small "stripper" wells and others that once would have been abandoned as uneconomic are being kept open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Searching, Searching for Oil | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...rather walk through Quincy Market. He'd like to start at Regina's and then grab maybe a couple of dozen chocolate chip cookies and some souvlaki, with a big finish at Durgin Park and maybe a half-gallon of beer. Zimmer's face looks like an aging Vegas stripper's silicone-sagging buttocks. He's already cost the club a fortune, what with bolstering the dugout bench and increased drag on the team bus, and he's not exactly defraying the expenses with World Series checks. And look what he's done to the country: House Speaker...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Fenway Finale: Finishing With a Whimper | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

...dancers themselves, the rewards are as much psychic as financial. "It's an ego trip for everybody," claims Stripper Garrett, who makes $600 a week, excluding the tips that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world with everyone else." There is, of course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Anne Down graduated to playing a Soviet seductress in The Pink Panther Strikes Again and a bed-hopping socialite in the film version of Harold Robbins' The Betsy. For her next act, in a British television special, Down backs into a role as Phyllis Dixey, the legendary English stripper. What is it like to play an ecdysiast, after Miss Georgina? The roles, says Down, have "no comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...many conferences on taxes even lured out the old expert, Wilbur Mills, former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who will soon begin practicing law in Washington, having surmounted his problems with the bottle and Stripper Fanne Foxe. Mills, who for decades was the key man in devising tax measures, said he was happy to be out of the tax picture because he did not believe the proposals so far discussed were very sound or likely to be passed. He also complained that there was too much White House talk about possible tax changes. Recalled Mills: "F.D.R. used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Rising Rumble over Taxes | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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