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...girl who took a midnight plunge and came up a celebrity learn to live with her reputation?" The question jumps from the book cover of Fanne Foxe, The Stripper and the Congressman. Since her Tidal Basin swim and her romance with Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills went public last October, Fanne Foxe has made one R rated movie (Posse from Heaven), and has plans for a second, as well as a Las Vegas nightclub opening in December. Her new book, in which she tells of her alleged pregnancy by Mills and an abortion, is headed for a press...
Despite détente, the Iron Curtain is still a forbidding barrier for Eastern Europeans who would like to live in the West. To penetrate it, desperate refugees swim rivers, crawl under barriers or run a murderous gauntlet of barbed wire, savage patrol dogs and armed guards. One of the boldest escapes of all was carried out last week by an American pilot, Barry Meeker, who whisked three escapees from Czechoslovakia by helicopter...
Despite mounting discontent with his leadership, General Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's unhinged head of state, rumbles on. In order to dramatize his offer to lead Egyptian troops against Israel, Big Daddy has now promised to swim the Suez Canal. Widthwise, of course. For all his alleged aquanautical ability, he may be just as happy with a few laps in the White House pool. Amin plans to address the U.N. General Assembly hi New York and says he hopes to visit President Ford as well. "If America respects the views and decisions of the Af rican continent, President Ford...
...Prison, which sits on a rocky promontory overlooking the Atlantic. The inmates were aided by a sympathetic guard who marched them one by one underneath his rain cape to a 60-ft. wall overlooking the sea. Using a rope of knotted sheets, they climbed down and were able to swim to shore, where waiting cars picked them...
...wives, they seem to be saying, we made our contribution anyway and we're going to throw it at you along with everyone else's red, white and blue propaganda. It's like someone who's been tossed into a river pointing proudly to the fact that he can swim...