PARTYING-'GREAT SOCIETY' STYLE 'GYRATING' DANCES, 'PEEKABOO' DRESSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200650016-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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a comp]efely n6iitra3ispaYLiit neck-lo-toe
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r'leotard "such as "ballet dancers 'wear'_"_
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artying-"Great Society" Style
"GYRATING" DANCES, "PEE 00" DRESSES
WASHINGTON-"Transparent" dress- gressman was Mrs. Rudolph E. Carter,
es, "body stockings" and "gyrating wife of a State-6epartment o,cial.Her
dances have been taken up by Wash- gown; of the Opera' Ball, was described
ington society-and at least one Con- by some as a "peekaboo" dress. In "The
gressman is shocked by the goings-on. Washington Star," columnist Betty Beale
Representative H. R. Gross, Iowa Re- referred to it as "a transparent lace."
publican, complained in a House speech ' Under it, according to Miss Beale, Ms,,,
Dance by Bill D. Moyers, White House
Whi h Mrs. Carter decided the costume
was "a little advanced for the Smithson-
ian," Miss Beale said,' she "rushed home
to put ona full-length white slip."
--PreseiiC at the 'Opera 11111; according
to press accounts, were "a dozen am-
bassadors, half the Cabinet, a number of
congressional leaders and their wives."
Wrote Miss Beale: "The Opera Ball
raised $76,000 for the future of opera
in Washington. . At $100 a ticket,
the [ball] committee would have wel-
comed the attendance of the whole
House of Representatives, Gross includ-
ed. . . . One suspects the Smithsonian
will survive the presence of the 'Rev-
erend Moyers' waving his arms and
kicking up his heels in a manner remi-
niscent of an Iowa square dancer."
Said Mr. Gross: "I don't see why the
Smithsonian should be made available
aide, drew fire of an Iowa Congressman for this kind of gyrating.... Maybe we
ought to set up some burlesque halls
May 10 about two recent social events for the mink-coat set." ;
"
Great Soci-
involving the cream of the
etv."
At the White House a week earlier, .,j~? ~w
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President Johnson had danced until 3 j .",`=
Prime Minister.
Said Mr. Gross: "I don't think, with a
war going on and the problems this Gov-
ernment has to face, that the President
of the United States, his family, or the
Vice President ought to spend time
dancing until 3 in the morning."
Mr. Gross also had some comments on
the Opera Ball - a midnight dinner
dance for 1,000 guests-held at the
Smithsonian Institution on May 6.
Said the Congressman: "I was amazed
and shocked that they had a $75-to-
$100-per-ticket dance at the Smithsoni-
an with the Reverend Moyers doing the
watusi and frug and one woman sent
home to get dressed because she was
half naked." Mr.'Gross was referring to
Bill D. Moyers, a Special Assistant to the
President. ,Mr.. Moyers is. aA.ordained _ -taitch.y.n. "W.ehlnstonPost" Photo
--minister In the -Baptist Churt:h.-?--, el ' rter in eekaboo" dress, with
The woman mentioned by the Con- agar Stevens, a v br'^on-Wrts
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