ARKANSAS: A Bit of the Bubbly

Congressman Wilbur Mills had said that he was too busy with the public's business in Washington to campaign for re-election back in Arkansas. But that was before his recent misadventure. Last week Mills emerged from nine days of nursing his abrased dignity and flew home. On the plane, a CBS reporter questioned Mills about his Argentine-born friend Annabella Battistella, 38, the onetime stripper who wound up in Washington's Tidal Basin after dashing from Mills' car. "Was there anything between you and the young lady?" asked the reporter. "No," replied the Congressman, "I ought to be flattered at my age of...

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