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...include teachers and policemen, postal workers and bus drivers, health-lab technicians and jail keepers, IRS and Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole Government...
...Publetter [Dec. 6] writer is a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. If your man had misspent his youth to better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
...visit to a local OTB parlor. They emerged unscathed, simply by not placing a bet. Demarest was not always so steel-willed. As a member of TIME'S London bureau in the late 1950s, Demarest closely followed the fortunes of a horse named Four Flusher (gambling argot for cheater), which was jointly owned by a few bureau staffers. "Out of loyalty," Demarest says, "I bet on the horse when I might not have otherwise. And I rarely...
Several matters-relatively trivial but taken as clues to his character-became major news events and cost him support. Perhaps most damaging were his comments to Playboy about lust and his description of Lyndon Johnson as a liar and cheater, for which he publicly apologized to Lady Bird Johnson...
Plainly, the military academies have lots of company when it comes to cheating. Educators agree that intense pressure for better grades is at least partly to blame. An ill-prepared student may panic and copy from a classmate during a test simply to pass. More often, it seems, the cheater is not the marginal student but the one with aspirations for graduate school or law school...