Word: caperers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michel's latest escape, his fourth since 1973, was at least as spectacular as his 1979 caper, in which he made a getaway after holding up an entire courtroom with a fake gun that he had sculpted out of soap...
What the Government intends to prove, Volz declared, is that the defendants used lying, bribery and influence peddling to obtain valuable state certification for phony hospital and nursing- home corporations, which they then sold for some $9 million. Volz did admit that the alleged caper involved some "complex shenanigans...
...company ten times larger than Leasco. In 1969, at the age of 29, he went after a real giant: Chemical Bank, then the seventh largest U.S. bank. In that case, though, Steinberg's reach exceeded his grasp. Says Paul Hallingby, a friend and longtime business associate: "The Chemical caper never had a chance of succeeding. They were an Establishment bank, and they had ways of heading him off." The bank had plenty of old friends and ties and could afford just to ignore the brash young...
...with Terrence Young's filn. The Jigsaw Man, there is yet another product from the Philby industry, albeit a cheap one. This half-hearted attempt at a spy caper feeds heavily upon the actual case as well as borrowing generously from Le Carre's work--though without any of the former's excitement. Has Young gone to the well once too often, or is the subject simply in need of more skillful handling...
...mingle with longshoremen. He flew off to Allentown and Bethlehem to stroll through a steel plant and hold a press conference, but engine problems kept him from leaving for Pittsburgh on time. While a pair of small Learjets were being hired, Hart felt obliged to caper around for photographers (he posed in a cockpit wearing dark glasses and pilot's cap) and to discuss the Democrats' alleged indulgence of black antiSemitism. At Pittsburgh's airport (four hours after Mondale had touched down there), he met with a group of old people bused out for the occasion, then...