Word: conning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). As a Western con man, the late Errol Flynn (on film) peddles his saloon just before the mines that support the town play...
Last week the American Council on Education made an angry, 100-page attack on U.S. "diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states, the council reported, are raking in $75 million from 750,000 victims a year. California alone may have 100 such schools. A top West German investigator of academic frauds used to get 2,000 complaints annually about U.S. diploma mills. Now he gets 6,000, and calls the mills...
...talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder is a born con man, but one who believes his own line of patter...
...rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...