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NOSE JOB OF THE YEAR: Sting Screenwriter David Ward thumbing his in the con man's recognition signal featured in his script. Obviously he understood the true worth of his work better than the majority of the voters...
...Con Jimmy Hoffa was back in prison last week-but just for dessert. The ex-boss of the Teamsters was announcing to several hundred inmates of the prison in Norfolk, Mass., the opening of the New England chapter of the National Association for Justice, which he founded in 1972 on his release from federal jail. Its aim: to help cons battle civil rights and legal problems. Tackling questions from the floor, Law-and-Order Convert Hoffa advocated the death penalty for "mad dog" killers and kidnapers. But he came out against giving immunity to "stool pigeons" because that...
...they have received no new grants. In fact, Camillo admits that he does not know how to go about getting application forms. But the members are unanimous in their enthusiastic commitment to their theatrical future, and in their insistence that the company is not simply an ex-con's rehabilitation program. "We're not trying to rehabilitate anybody," says Steward. "We're just a bunch of dudes hooked up together and trying to make...
Nixon, Pro and Con...
Soaring electricity bills are angering homeowners all over the U.S., but the situation appears to be most highly charged in the New York area, where Con Edison's rates are among the highest in the nation. Several hundred residents of affluent Westchester County, which has possibly the largest concentration of all-electric homes in the U.S., have banded together to protest rate increases that have hiked their monthly bills from an average of $136.87 last March to $252.52 this month, an increase of 85%. Says Housewife Tena Jackson: "My electric bill was $267 in February-$98 more over last...