Word: champaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grifter's Gift. How did Thompson work his con for so long? "He was a genius at his craft," says Robert Steigmann, Champaign County assistant state's attorney. "He had the ability to snow anybody." Ruddy-faced, ingratiating and gregarious, Thompson had the grifter's gift for spinning a convincing yarn. His face stamped with Main Street openness, Thompson never carried a fake I.D. "I don't imagine I've been asked for identification over half a dozen times," he says. Countless WANTED flyers distributed around the country gave rough descriptions...
...government firsthand. He was an obscure Congressional aide until two years ago, when he signed on as Washington editor of National Review. He started a column in the Washington Post soon afterward, and almost overnight his perceptive political commentary made him a leader of conservative opinion. A native of Champaign, Ill., he studied at Trinity, Oxford and Princeton, and taught at Michigan State and the universities of Illinois and Toronto. Among the first conservative leaders to break with President Nixon, Will says: "I agree with him on most of the issues [but] I think he is guilty...
...stereos, radios, wallets, typewriters, jewelry and clothes have been reported so far this year-already well over the 203 reported in the 1971-72 academic year. At Purdue University, thefts have jumped from 300 cases reported in 1965 to 922 last year, and at the University of Illinois at Champaign the value of stolen property has soared remarkably from less than $50,000 three years ago to more than $200,000 last year...
...Champaign...
MARK E. SINGER Champaign...