Where Eastern Iowans find disco dancing and lessons
Eastern Iowans can find discos at Jo E dos on Collins Road and Shake Your Bootie on Ninth Avenue with contests and cash prizes. Oscar's Discotheque on Sixth Street features a 10 week dance contest culminating November 21 with planned lessons before showdowns. Gatsby's on First Avenue NW offers starting lessons on Sept 26 with professional instructors and a small cover after 8 pm.
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Joe Nicks
Ninth Ave
Oscar’s Discotheque
Sixth Street
Gatsby’s
First Ave
Gin Mill
Iowa City hosts diverse disco venues with dress codes and fees
Space-age dancers and local clubs shape the Iowa City disco scene. The Gin Mill and Gregor y's Down Under enforce strict dress codes with $1 cover charges at some spots while Copper Connection reopens after AC upgrades with a new sound. Woodfield's and the Fieldhouse charge $1 and host fall disco contests. Classes offered by Kirkwood Community College Cherie's Dance Studios and Ellis Y include multi week courses priced from about 6 to 30 dollars.
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Iowa City
New York
Grand Daddy’s
Woodfield’s
Fieldhouse
University of Iowa
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Washington
Cherie
Center Point Road
Cherie Chittenden
Ellis Y
Arthur Murray
Town and Country
79 year old disco dancer keeps pace with youth
Logan McGowan, 79, dances nightly at Houston discos with Betty Ellis. He says disco energizes him, recalls Spanish friends, and that dancing keeps his ego up, while he enjoys scotch and company at spots near Rice University.
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Houston
UPI
Logan McGowan
Betty Ellis
Mac
Betty
Rice University
Sprocketman promotes bicycle safety and the ride at Bever Park
A Spokesman review discusses the CPSC created comic Sprocketman teaching safe biking practices including helmet use and proper lighting. The Hawkeye Bicycle Association sponsors a 50 mile ride starting at Bever Park at 8 am through Alburnett to Center Point, free and open to the public.
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Sprocketman
Hawkeye Bicycle Association
Bever Park
Alburnett
Center Point
South misreads lead in four notrump bridge duel
Bridge column describes a four notrump battle where West leads a heart from a short suit, South misclaims a trick, then plays clubs. South criticizes North for not letting East win the first heart trick, arguing the lead implied West held the top of a short suit and a club ace could later be knocked out.
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West
East
North
Foreign travel to U S booming says Trans World Air lines chief
C E Meyer Jr president of Trans World Airlines told the 10th International Pow Wow in Albuquerque that foreign tourism to the United States is booming driven by a weak dollar and cheaper air fares. He noted major early 1978 increases from the United Kingdom Germany France Switzerland and Portugal. More than 500 travel agents from abroad attended the convention meeting U S hotels airlines and attractions. Also dated note recalls the 1973 Chilean coup and President Allende’s death by suicide.
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N.M
UPI
United States
C.E. Meyer Jr
Trans World Airlines
Discover America Travel Organizations Inc
America
Meyer
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Switzerland
Portugal
U.S
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Fred Grandy
Ted Lange
Oswald Jacoby
Alan Sontag
North South
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Ricardo Montalban
Herve Villechaize
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