Playboy After Hours

September, 1977

In Illinois, The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette headlined a story about Vice President Mondale's visit with French president Valery Giscard d'Es-taing: "Mondale gets 'warm response' from French head."•After a West German choir group, on a visit to the Vatican, had performed a song for the Pope's weekly audience, the pontiff asked who they were. An aide's reply, inadvertently transmitted over the loud-speaker: "They're Germans. Generally, they sing better than this."•Classified...