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atergate 'Gam
e Plan'
The S
enate in
vestig
ations
into
the W
atergate scan
dal
may
be g
rindin
g o
ut slo
wly
, but tw
o enterprising men are
already cap
italizing o
n th
e nation's current fascination.
How
ard M
ercer, a form
er L
os A
ng
ele
s disk
jock
ey
tu
rned
inven
tor, an
d Jo
e Su-
garm
an, a C
hicag
o ad
vertis-
ing executive, have dreamed
up th
e "Waterg
ate Scan
dal
Gam
e." An
y citizen
with
$3
in
unm
arked
bills m
ay b
uy
it to p
lay a
t hom
e w
ith
friends o
r loved
ones.
The o
bject o
f the g
ame—
actually
, it's no m
ore th
an a
deck
of card
s mark
ed w
ith
such
desig
natio
ns as P
hone
Tapper, P
residential Advisor,
Big
Contrib
uto
r; Atto
rney
G
eneral or Attorney G
eneral's W
ife—is to lie, cheat, cover
up a
nd,
if possib
le, even
b
ribe th
e d
eale
r. Wh
en
a
play
er is pro
ven
a liar, he
must take a penalty card and
a certain number of points is
sub
tracted fro
m h
is score.
The gam
e's inventors have b
een esp
ecially to
ng
ue-in
-cheek about penalties. A
Big
Contributor is fined nothing;
bein
g ask
ed to
resign co
sts 1
0 p
oin
ts, wh
ile bein
g fired
is 2
5. P
enalties g
o u
p fro
m
50 points for exposure by the p
ress, to 2
00
for a p
rison
sentence.
Card
s are kep
t face daw
n
on the table and players may
lie their heads off. The point
is no
t to h
e c
au
gh
t red
-han
ded
by th
e Accu
ser, or
pla
yer to
the rig
ht o
f the
dealer. H
e may
also lie, b
ut
not be exposed. T
he g
am
e sh
ou
ld b
e in
stores in
about tw
o w
eeks.
•
So
uleiad
o is a P
rov
encal
wo
rd th
at man
y F
rench
men
hav
e nev
er heard
, but ev
en
peo
ple w
ho can
't pro
nounce
it are
fam
iliar w
ith th
e
charm
ing p
rints th
at carry
the S
oule
iado tra
dem
ark
. T
hey are those 'hand-blocked co
ttons in
floral an
d p
aisley
patterns that make you think
of F
rench
country
inns. A
nd
the F
rench
country
side is a
go
od
pla
ce to
ob
serv
e a
souleiado
(soo-lay-ah-doe), fo
r it's a sun
sho
wer.
The fa
bric
s, as w
ell a
s pro
ducts m
ade fro
m th
em,
are the m
ain attractio
ns at
a, Green
wich
Villag
e shop
called La P
rovence de Pierre
Deu
x. It is an
outg
row
th o
f an a
ntiq
ues
shop called
Pierre D
eux
, wh
ere So
ulei-
ado p
illow
s and q
uilts h
ave
been sold for three years. T
he tw
o P
ierres—L
e Vec
and M
oulin
— fo
und th
e
prin
ts in
Av
ign
on
an
d
thought th
ey w
ould
be
natu
ral accessories fo
r their
shop's F
rench
country
an-
tiques. "It w
as so
fascin
ating
to
see thin
gs h
and d
one," M
r. L
e Bec said
the o
ther d
ay,
"and to
realiz
e it w
as a
q
uality
that m
igh
t no
t last m
uch longer." A
nd
so, last su
mm
er the
seco
nd
sho
p , o
pen
ed
its doors. B
olts o
f fabric
are
sta
cked o
n o
ne sid
e, fre
-quently
spillin
g o
ver th
e
cou
nter an
d th
e floo
r wh
en
customers ask to see "every-
thin
g." W
om
en's an
d ch
il-dren's clothes cram
the racks an
d su
ch
ob
jects a
s pla
ce
mats, h
ats and
pillo
ws are
every
wh
ere yo
u lo
ok
.
The sto
ry o
f the fab
ric. w
ith its flo
ral patern
s and
an
imal p
rints, g
oes track
to
the 1
8th
cen
tury
, bu
t it w
asn't u
ntil th
e 20th
cen-
tury that production 'expand-ed into bags, napkins, table-clo
ths, se
win
g k
its an
d,
after World
War H
, cloth
es. L
ong sk
irts, som
e plain
co
tton an
d o
thers, q
uilted
, ran
ge fro
m $
75 to
$95. A
sh
ort sk
irt with
a hip
yoke
an
d fro
nt p
leat is $
47
.50
. S
hort d
resses are $65 an
d
$75. Teeny bikinis $25.
Fab
ric costs $
9 to
$13.5
0
a y
ard
; bo
rders a
re $
2.5
0
to $3.50. L
e P
rov
en
ce d
e P
ierre
D
eu
x is a
t 37
8 B
leeck
er
Street (b
etween
Ch
arles and
P
erry
Stre
ets). It is o
pen
Monday through F
riday from
noon to
10 P
.M., S
aturd
ay
from 10 A
.M. to 6 P
.M. D
ur-ing July and A
ugust the shop w
ill be closed Saturdays.
•
Speaking of fabrics, G
ucci h
as used
three n
ew p
atterns
in its spring-sum
mer collec-
tions. A
ppro
pria
tely
, all
thre
e a
re in
spire
d b
y th
e
sea. One is a sm
all dolp
hin
nuzzling the G
ucci G; anoth-
er is a wav
e pattern
flow
-in
g 'th
rou
gh
a chain
of G
's w
eighted
by an
anch
or, an
d
the th
ird is an
underw
ater scen
e of co
ral and fern
. The
prin
ts appear o
n sc
arv
es,
shirts an
d d
resses. G
ucci has also added small
clu
tch b
ags in
suede a
nd
calf as well as a n
ew su
ede
shoe. The pum
p, dressier than th
e' famo
us G
ucci lo
afer, is trim
med w
ith a
fine g
old
chain and stands on a slight-ly higher, slim
mer heel.