Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Obvious Issue. There, after redistricting last April, Incumbent Con- gressmen John Dingell, 38, and John Lesinski, 49, found themselves running against each other. Both men are of Polish extraction. Both are the sons of Congressmen: Dingell's father served the old 15th District from 1932 until his death in 1955; Lesinski's father represented the old 16th from 1933 until his death in 1950. The Dingells were liberals and champions of the Negroes, who comprised some 46% of the population in their longtime constituency. The Lesinskis stood fast against any Negro penetration of their own home ground...
Roughed Up. They began when a Negro woman who was arrested for trying to steal a pint of gin charged that she had been roughed up by Dixmoor Liquor Store Owner Michael ("Big Mike") LaPota, 52, a 265-lb. ex-con. Soon the story spread through Dixmoor and into the neighboring town of Harvey. A crowd of Negroes gathered in a parking lot across the street from LaPota's shop, chanting to the accompaniment of bongos, "Big Mike must go!" For hours, Negro rabble-rousers harangued the mob with inflammatory speeches. Someone threw a rock through the closed liquor...
...Broadway. Poor Bitos, which was a hit in London, stars Donald (The Caretaker) Pleasence. Traveller Without Luggage is a tragicomedy about an amnesia victim. The Plaster Bambino, Sidney Michaels' second entry (with Ben Franklin), is one of the season's most intriguing dramas. The script, about a con man's production of the Passion Play, combines vaudeville, burlesque, music and a speaking chorus...
Harlem has seceded and declared itself a nation. Barricades made of abandoned autos, Fifth Avenue buses and Con Edison signs ("Dig We Must") have been erected on its borders. Frontier guards have been posted on the subway lines and the New York Central and New Haven railroads, and tolls are collected as the trains pass through Harlem. The "numbers" have been nationalized. Harlem's Congressman Lance Huggins, the first Prime Minister, announces a policy of no-surrender: "We have surrendered absolutely to our fate which is freedom. We had this secret space in us and now we have located...
These nutritional con-men, Stare said, usually say that our foods are "Over-processed, devitalized and poisoned"; they promise quick and sure results; and they usually have something to sell...