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For $3 Y

ou Can H

ave Your O

wn W

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.