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In one of their periodic thrusts at sin, the county sheriff's men raided a joint outside Houston last week, hauled away two strippers named Margie Lament, 33, and Mitzi Wright, 27, and charged them with indecent exposure. In court, the girls put up an unusual defense: it simply wasn't true that they had performed without panties or bras, because their union (the A.F.L. American Guild of Variety Artists) wouldn't permit such things. Verdict: not guilty. Grateful Margie and Mitzi gave the jury passes to the show. Next night, all six jurors went.

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