Word: conning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness in his eyes which gave offer of some knowledge of the abyss, even the kind of gentleness which ex-drunkards attain after years...
...Millions has a bit of the wryness, a lot of closeups-and a welcome touch of humor besides. Peter Ustinov, who co-authored the script with Ira Wallach, plays Marcus Pendleton, a waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign...
...know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. They've given us the freedom to con them." --JOHN LENNON...
...rattled Hubert Humphrey, who invoked his 20-year friendship with Gene McCarthy to ask once again for his support. "It is inconceivable to me that we wouldn't be together when the choice is between Nixon and Wallace and myself," he said. In a brief Washington press con ference, McCarthy merely announced that he would not declare support for any candidate until his return from a va cation on the French Riviera. He added that he would probably not decide to back Nixon...
Propaganda Ploy. While the North Vietnamese have long since abandoned round-the-clock shelling of the isolated U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien just south of the DMZ, northernmost I Corps remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into...