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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requires more patiently marshaled skills than those of consummate check forgery. The practitioner must combine the nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm of a successful encyclopedia salesman. He must win people's trust in order to clean them out. Where other criminals can hope to muster enough luck to succeed, the passer of bum checks relies on finesse and self-confidence honed to fine arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Forger Checked | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

FIVE YEARS AGO, The New York Post ran a story under the headline, "Jackie's Aunt Told: Clean Up Mansion." The Post reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin were living "in a garbage-ridden, filthy 28-room house with eight cats, fleas, cobwebs, and no running water" and faced eviction by the Suffolk County Health Department...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: An Andy Warhol Camelot | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...come a long way since posing squeaky clean with that baby on the Ivory Snow box, and Porn Star Marilyn Chambers is still moving. With her cinematic X-ertions (Behind the Green Door, Resurrection of Eve) playing in movie houses round the country, Chambers, 23, has now begun polishing her moves for a New York cabaret show. Titled "Le Bellybutton" and scheduled for opening this week in New York's Hotel Diplomat, the song-and-dance blackout revue will exhibit Marilyn and a cast of eleven in a multitude of skins. "Of course films are very lucrative," purrs Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...screen some clean-cut radicals were holding their arms up against a wall waiting to be frisked. Al and the Lite drinker on my right discussed Hank, an old jockey...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...part of a team which is playing a game and the game is this: look but don't touch. Smooth-faced youth and athletic grace are the common denominators among the waiters here. He weaves between tables and chairs like a pro headed for that tie-breaker basket. Clean hair, clean suit, clear eyes, clean cut; we're convinced that when the bar closes at 2:00 a.m. he will head home in a blue Ford station wagon driven by a saddle-shoed, gum-chewing, pigtailed girl...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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