Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally met in an Austin hotel and concocted a cover story. If they were ever questioned about the money, said Jacobsen, they would both maintain that while it had been offered to Connally, he had refused it and Jacobsen had put it in a bank safe-deposit box. To back up this alibi, according to Jacobsen, Connally then handed over a cigar box containing $ 10,000, which was soon stashed in an Austin bank...
Lending some credence to Jacobsen's account were travel and telephone records confirming the dates on which he said he had seen or called Connally. And when the FBI opened the safe-deposit box, it found that some of the bills inside probably had been put into circulation later than May 1971-the date on which they were supposed to have been locked up according to the cover story...
...pocket. Then come second thoughts. She fishes out the scarf, smooths it again and returns it to the counter. Another victory for honesty? Not quite. Credit for the would-be shoplifter's change of heart really belongs to what the store's managers call their "little black box," a kind of electronic conscience...
Basically a sound mixer like those used by disco deejays, the box mingles bland music with subliminal anti-theft messages ("I am honest. I will not steal...
...Five, which 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming, Actress Jane Fonda plays a secretary in a Los Angeles firm that is so large and anonymous that she and her water-cooler chums are not even sure what business it is in. However it does at the box office, the movie is sure to draw howls of pain from personnel officers. Reason: all over the country, companies are finding that despite today's near 6% unemployment rate, they are having to cope with a severe shortage of secretaries. That shortage is, in no small measure, caused...