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...addition, Spinola announced the formation of a new security force, COP-CON (for Commando Operacional do Continente), which will have the power to intervene to maintain order. Heading COPCON will be left-leaning Brigadier General Otelo Saraiva de Carvahlho, 37, the audacious young firebrand who organized the April revolution down to the tons of red carnations that suddenly blossomed all over the country as the rebels' symbol...
Today the con game is bigger, more complex and even respectable. The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft. Even the suckers are more impressive, as Equity Funding stockholders and the recent star-studded list of unfortunate Home-Stake oil-drilling investors has indicated. Yet there is still no first-class novel of contemporary American business. Perhaps it is because those who know the most about the subject are satisfied to be putting their creative talents to more profitable...
...salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell," intolerably painful. But Goodman plays Willy as a man of no more substance than the dreams he spins--as a buffoon, a con-man who really could be happy selling the Brooklyn Bridge if only someone would buy. But there isn't a member of the Loman family who is deceived by this shabby little dog-eared pack of dreams that Willy has been hauling about--and least of all, Willy. And therein...
Roadmasters has gone to court a number of times in truckers' behalf, winning cases ranging as far afield as the recent abolition of the Iowa state justice of the peace system. In 1967, Roadmasters challenged the con-stitutionality of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which regulates national trucking...
...could be a sentimental family favorite: he is the son of NBC Chicago Correspondent Clifton Utley and former NBC Reporter Frayn Utley. He is also an experienced newsman. Utley's relaxed, occasionally eloquent style apparently appealed to Today watchers. His mail is running 1,010 pro, only 65 con...