Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Con Among the Pros...
Most heartening to conservationists was the commission's condemnation of Consolidated Edison's plan for a huge hydroelectric power plant at the base of brooding Storm King Mountain, at the famed north gate to the majestic Hudson Highlands.* Governor Rockefeller, who had earlier supported the $162 million Con Ed project, backed off after his brother criticized it, said that "if another solution can be found, it should be." The commission chided local government for failure to request federal beautification and urban-renewal money, noted that the latter could open up rotting waterfronts and create little "fishermen...
KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man (George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison camp during World...
...track, mostly mine explosions and sniping attacks that killed 126 Vietnamese. Today only 345 miles of track are usable, despite the fact that most trains carry three squat grey gun cars bristling with automatic weapons, and are often preceded by diesel-powered machine-gun-bearing armored cars called con rua, or "turtles," by the Vietnamese. But armored cars are easily blown up, and even turtles can be turned back by heavy machine-gun fire or a 57-mm. recoilless-rifle shell...
...ransom, they planned to kidnap Leonard Firestone, 58, one of five sons of the late rubber magnate Harvey Firestone, from his $250,000 home in Beverly Hills. The plot was dangerous enough, but Skalla's real worry was Bailey, an ex-con who had turned respectable and had acquired a $75,000 house and four children. Bailey took over the show, threatened to kill Skalla if he pulled out. He even got the nervous Skalla to thinking that he would kill him anyway once the snatch was completed...