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Murder, rape and bribery are all crimes that everyone understands; what is meant by conspiracy is less obvious. 'Lately, this age-old crime has become one that district attorneys find themselves prosecuting in a variety of important cases. Conspiracy charges have helped convict such diverse defendants as Billie Sol Estes, the accused killers of the three Mississippi civil rights workers, and price-fixing General Electric executives...
Turkish Advantages. In Nicosia, stunned Greek diplomats conceded that the age-old Greek aim of enosis (union) between mainland and island was dead...
Fair enough, or so it seems. And because it does, it is the big, new, easy-money scheme of the year, according to the Post Office Department. In essence, it merely gives a modern twist to the age-old missing-heir dodge. The twist is important. In the past, a con man would approach a few selected victims with a well-prepared line of talk and ask for a few hundred dollars to cover his expenses. The large sum requested required a risky in-person performance. A promoter of the new scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails...
...girls, they earn easily $150 each in a twelve-hour working day. But nearly all of them, in keeping with the age-old code of their craft, turn over their earnings to their pimps, many of whom manage stables of four or five tarts each and give them back no more than $10 a day for expenses. The girls in return seem to achieve one of their few genuine gratifications at the sight of their flashily attired ponces tooling down Broadway in chauffeured "hogs" (Cadillacs...
...peace and order; here you see a succession of values, a succession of rhythms, repetitions of patterns, which form a consistent whole. The Chinese historical record, in other words, presents you not with just an emerging new nation today, but with a country that is making modifications in an age-old tradition, that has one of the longest historical personalities. The history and the patterns going with it are worthy of analysis because they are still operating...