Playboy After Hours

October, 1974

At ease! The Florida senate, in rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment, explained its rationale through a spokesman: "Can you imagine an 18-year-old girl, raised in the Church, being drafted into a barracks full of hardened military men?"•There's no doubt in our mind that the story's apocryphal, but a reader in West Germany claims that something very much like this happened. A German company ordered a shipment of coffee from a U.S. firm, but when it arrived, rats were discovered in a cou...