Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bamboo Poles. Scarcely three miles south of the DMZ, the Communists attempted to overrun the camp of Con Thien, defended by two companies of Marines and three companies of Vietnamese irregular forces advised by a U.S. Special Forces team. The entire 4th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 821st Regiment attacked, led by two companies of sappers who cut their way through the Marines' barbed-wire perimeter by thrusting ahead of them satchel charges and bangalore torpedoes mounted on the tips of bamboo poles. The Marines hit back with rapid M-16 rifle fire and grenades, plus twin...
...Best Con Men Ever." "But this is fully documented," a baffled Meadows would occasionally interject. The A.D.A.A. members were not surprised; documents are even easier to forge than paintings. Last January French police raided the apartment of one Raoul Lessard as he was leaving for New York, found a suitcase with four fake paintings, forged custom stamps and certificates by experts, all addressed to Dallas. Lessard has been acting as "private secretary" to a dandy named Fernand Legros, who last March in Paris sent a photo of a painting supposedly by Andre Derain to an auction house, only to have...
...hideaways, has so far insisted that he made innocent mis takes. But Lessard is a French Canadian, and Legros is a naturalized U.S. citizen of French extraction; this description tallies with the two men from whom Meadows bought most of his paintings. "They were charming-real artists, the biggest con men ever," says Meadows wryly. But he is not taking the A.D.A.A.'s judgment as final. While another French dealer, who sold Meadows seven fakes for $100,000, has already agreed to refund the Texan's money, Meadows is insisting that French experts render a verdict...
Since the legislature adjourned immediately after the vote, Governor Love could have buried the bill by a pocket veto. After weighing thousands of pro and con letters, Love declared that the bill tightened as well as liberalized the law, by limiting abortions to licensed, accredited hospitals and requiring approval by a medical panel. As for widely voiced fears that Colorado might become an "abortion mecca," Love was confident that physicians and hospitals would not risk their reputations and accreditations by lightly approving abortions for transients...
...good. I didn't learn it until I was nine." Waner alienated Chicago's militant civil rights groups by opposing open housing, then blundered into a vow to fire Chicago's able Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, whom he labeled a "$30,000-a-year con artist...