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...Con Men & Raiders. In a report based on a series of hearings last year, the subcommittee asserted that Saxon's policy of liberal charters for new banks had attracted financial raiders, confidence men and other "unscrupulous and corrupt persons" into banking. The subcommittee was especially critical of Saxon's role in the events leading to the 1965 failure of the San Francisco National Bank, whose charter had been approved by Saxon's predecessor. The McClellan group thought it "inexplicable" that Saxon had withheld information about the bank's perilous condition from the Federal Reserve, which...
...Harvard accepted one applicant whose unknown professor topped his letter of recommendation in big block letters: TAKE THIS MAN! Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!" "We found this irresistible," recalls Cavell. "He dropped out after one term." But generally, "You can't con an admissions committee," says Cavell. "You can't be cooler, or smarter. What you've got to be is different...
...relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed delicately: 'To the world's greatest swordsman from his most grateful scabbard...
Gabriel Vahanian suggests that there may well be no true faith without a measure of doubt, and thus contemporary Christian worry about God could be a necessary and healthy antidote to centuries in which faith was too con fident and sure. Perhaps today, the Christian can do no better than echo the prayer of the worried father who pleaded with Christ to heal his spirit-possessed son: "I believe; help my unbelief...
...convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked him to kidnap Mossler, was so deflated by Foreman that part of his confused...