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...Vegas, one of three nightspots that had featured bare-bosomed chorus girls bowed to the Catholic Church's protest that nude shows were contrary to the moral and divine law (TIME, Aug. 25). But while Beldon Katelman, president of El Rancho Vegas, apologized to church authorities and put his girls back in bras, the Stardust staunchly retained its twelve nudes and the Dunes added four to its original...
...Vegas (pop. 53,690-20% Catholics) trouble arose not over pictures but over personal appearances: the chorines in three of the town's gilded night cages-the Dunes, the Stardust and El Rancho Vegas-glided about with their breast feathers completely plucked. In a message read this week from every Catholic pulpit in Nevada, Reno's Bishop Robert J. Dwyer gave the warning "that all Catholics are strictly forbidden by the divine law itself to have any part in entertainment which is of its nature indecent, suggestive or calculated to excite thoughts or actions contrary to the Sixth...
Batista's police continued their savage repression. In Cotorro they hanged captured rebels; along Havana's Rancho Boyeros Road they broke into an apartment house, hauled out two suspects, a father and son, machine-gunned the older man in a nearby garage, then mowed down the hysterical son as he ran to his father...
...fever had Los Angeles in a sweat. To the joy of some and the rage of many, the city council last week voted to allow drilling in some residential areas. With Mayor Norris Poulson's approval yet to come, the council backed dezoning of the city-owned Rancho golf course and the private Hillcrest Country Club near Beverly Hills. Thundered the Los Angeles Examiner, decrying the eagerness of adjacent citizens to lease their lawns and barbecue pits: "Is spoliation of these homes to be forced upon the owners for peanuts per lot in return...
...came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...