Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay on opera [Oct. 8] was truly written "con amore." Bravo! How about an encore...
...soon as the lengthy love scenes are out of the way, the story gets clicking. Alain is a nice young ex-con trying to straighten out with the help of Wife Ann-Margret but with no help at all from his gangster brother. First thing anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk...
...Con. Many other communities are debating whether to adopt fluoridation. Though almost all doctors are convinced that the addition of a minute amount of fluorine (usually in the form of sodium fluoride) is the best way to prevent tooth decay, a large number of citizens' groups loudly oppose it, contending that fluoridation is a Communist plot to poison the nation. Amidst this fuss, two University of Rochester professors last week published a massive monograph with all the pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold...
...enemy even stealthier than the Viet Cong is putting more and more American servicemen out of action in Viet Nam and into hospitals. Relatively few cases of malaria have been con tracted so far by U.S. troops, but the number has been increasing steadily as the rainy season has encouraged the multiplication of mosquitoes. And the increase will continue as men are deployed into the forest hills. Most of the troops in the current buildup of forces are fresh from nonmalarious areas and have no resistance to the disease. Tertian Fevers. Until the Viet Cong stepped up its activities...
...night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team to the highest bidder. If the members were affluent and the bidding spirited, the pot sometimes went into five figures-which the "owners" of the winning teams happily pocketed. Then disaster struck. Two con men showed up as guests at a respectable Long Island club, posted grossly exaggerated handicaps, and bought a piece of themselves. They handily won their flight, and walked off with a large chunk of the $16,106.93 purse. Shortly thereafter, the United States Golf Association ruled that Calcuttas were strictly out of bounds...