Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last winter Schecter started seeing Kis singer again. By this time he was our White House correspondent and Kissinger the President's adviser. "I'm told Kissinger con ucts National Security Council meetings the same way he used to run our seminars at Harvard," says Schecter. "He has a wonder ful way of summing up and synthesizing is sues, but now he saves his own point of view for private talks with the President...
Almost exactly a year ago, the Consolidated Edison supergenerator known as "Big Allis" short-circuited, melting her metal insides and reducing Con Ed's electric power supply to New York City by 14%. "Brownouts" followed -reductions of power that dimmed lights and left New Yorkers chagrined. Con Ed engineers toiled on the generator, built by Allis-Chalmers, round the clock. After six months and 80,000 man-hours of work, Big Allis was "on line." But not for long. Within 87 minutes she conked out for four more months...
...Last week, after only 35 days of operation, Big Allis in the jargon of power engineers "tripped out" again-and again corridors darkened in many Manhattan buildings as residents tried to conserve power for such needs as air conditioning and elevators. After the million-kilowatt generator shut herself down. Con Ed reduced power to the city by 5% and purchased power from utilities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to make up for the shortage. New Yorkers alternately worried with affection about Big Allis and cursed the day they became dependent...
What caused the breakdown in Con Ed's most sophisticated piece of generating equipment? Engineers say Big Allis shut down because she was vibrating due to a faulty bearing connected to her high-pressure turbine. Though they have discovered the problem, they do not know why the bearing failed...
...They got Dobermans to rip your arms off. Some of these places got moats." The speaker is Pat Angelo (Alan King), a Mafioso gone straight. Plump and vested, he wants no part in a major crime planned by ex-Con Duke Anderson (Sean Connery). But Duke is persuasive, the take promises to be in the millions, and what the hell, Pat misses the glorious game of cops and robbers. So he gives the green light and the dirty sport begins, with a Fifth Avenue luxury apartment house as the scene of the heist...