Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gig Young, suavest of con men, impersonates a long-lost relative of a wealthy family to claim an inheritance...
...Wayne Morse has stated that (Con. Record-Aug. 5, 1964). "I have been briefed many times, as have other members of the Foreign Relations Committee and all this time witness after witness from the State Department and from the Pentagon have admitted under examination that they had no knowledge of any foreign troops in South Vietnam, from North vietnam, Red China, Cambodia, or anywhere else." Rather, "the sad fact is that the only foreign troops that have been in South Vietnam in any numbers have been American troops...
Given the need, value, and ability to offer a course in Soviet Civilization, it would seem such a project deserves serious consideration. With the recent grant for international studies this may be the time appropriate for discussing this proposal. Voices both pro and con are available among the students and faculty. Frank A. Orban...
More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom-that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught. He could con the forked tongue out of a snake. Under Tartuffe's spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making...
...thoroughly convinced President Johnson is a far greater con man than W. C. Fields was-but only time will tell if he is as comical...