MINSKY'S? NOPE, SMITHSONIAN STAID CAPITAL MUSEUM GETS NUDE LOOK

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 12, 1966
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CPYRGHT =----By--PAUL -HEAL'.Y............_.~...._......~_._. _~_.....
ureau) = Blushing for the first time in its 120 years,
the Smithsonian Institution admitted embarrassment over playing osi`to Tate-night.
revels enllvenedJjy..afrugging White House aid and a matron in a transparent dress.
`Was'hington has. been
ball for 1,000 held in the institu +.
'
tion
s museum of history and
technology last Friday. '
Front-page newspaper pictures
Sunday showed Presidential Press
Secretary Bill Moyers wildly %
doing either the frug or watusi
and Mrs. Rudolph E. Carter
.
,
Wife of a State Department of-
ficer, in a white lace dress re-
vealing a flesh-colored body
stocking underneath. The ball's.:
executive committee sent Mrs.
Carter home to. put on a slip.
The champagne dance-a fund-
raiser for the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts
- was denounced on the House
floor :by an outraged Rep. H. R.
Gross (R-Iowa) yesterday. Gross
said : the "exhibitionist . dancing".
by the "mink coat set" should
have taken place in 'a burlesque i
house rather than the hallowed
Smithsonian.
One Smithsonian official who
declined to be quoted told the
NEWS: "I guess we're about as
'polling the top' 'id"stitation offi- .
cials ress oficer_G.eorge Berk,_ t=;'
lacy issue this statement:
,Lacy ather-
:the adverse criticism. The Smith-
sonian Institution is honored that
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'half the Cabinet and dozens of Bill Moyers (fete left)'doing his dance and Mrs. Rudolph Carter
a ass
rrub d A C ' (f t' d
l
,the museum was selected for the
site for the ball but sorry that
Congressman Gross called atten-
tion to the unfortunate situation."
-Back to Tirane
. or. an ongres.ona
o o rig ,t.), after une went home for her slip, at the Smithr Dolan.
leaders, was held at the French< The -Q1. ld M "T
a.
'Embassy last year and-there was
a feeling today that it may go
back there next year.
Like Gross, Rep. Durward Hall
'(R-Mo.) today said he was es-
pecially horrified by the picture
of the madly dancing press sec-
retary because Moyers is an or-
dained Baptist-ni it stdr:
' Its ccertainly unseemly for a
parson out in my country-the
Ozarks-t be dancing
down on
his knees, Ball said.
"The frug is fine body exercise
.for young people--I have nothing
against, it-but It's suggestive
and lewd, for adults, especially
those In our government who l
rWitb thmaturity ituabigfi."!~ idisgneted.
y
-o Dyers - sam a point is when she showed
to be the aid closest:to President up the Smithsonian didn't let her
Johnson-was reported enormous- in," Kirwan said. "They told her
ly emaaxrassed b ==.thepublicity. ' to go home and -get dressed, as,
"'Rep. Michael Kirwan (t-Ohio)
they should have
'
.
,
a powerful member of the sub.= He added that if the top-echelon
committee -which handles funds: champagne party In the museum
for the Smithsonian, declined com. Was the worst thing the UX. has'
rent on Moyers' gay abandon but ` done, it' dopbti't :have' -gnftcla 'tb
had an observation to make about Worry. ab Jut.
the furor itver.Mrs ,Carter. " +?~" '~,-?"~