Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faced with 700 yawning faces, the big-campus lecturer yearns for one passionate learner-and this is what the good con man impersonates. "The very first lecture, the one everybody cuts, is the most important in the course," says a Wisconsin senior. Moving in fast, the con man lovingly establishes his own name with the prof. After that, says a Princeton honors student, one need only "sit in the first two rows of the lecture room and maintain continuous eye contact with the lecturer. Make him glad he's looking at you. Give him that receptive gaze, which implies...
Prof. Voltaire. At the University of Michigan, fraternity houses are stocked with not only old exams but also "teacher psych-outs"-dossiers compiled by A-students on professors' likes and dislikes. This allows con men to lug around the profs favorite magazine, or to ape his lingo. If this fails, says a recent Michigan graduate, there is the "welfare approach" of pretending poverty by wearing "hand-pressed khaki pants" and asking the professor on the very first-day "Ah, how much did you say that textbook was?" As a Wisconsin con man puts it: "These days...
...merely wanted to know how such "cigarette money" would really stimulate the U.S. economy. Dillon replied defensively that while the cut might not mean much to individuals, the total effect would be impressive. Byrd nodded. Things were going his way-slowly. There were still about 170 witnesses, pro and con, scheduled to be heard by his committee. Doubtless some of them would argue -as have Dillon and the Administration- that failure to pass the bill means a probable recession next year. But not everyone agreed with this. Last week the Business Council, whose 100-plus members are presidents and board...
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...hardest thing a football coach has to learn is to keep a straight face. No coach-or con man-ever gave it a better try than Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson. Those might have been real tears welling in his blue eyes as he watched his Sooners take the field against Southern California's mighty Trojans, winners of twelve straight games, the nation's No. 1-ranked college team. "Us?" sniffed Wilkinson. "Oh, we're far too slow and inexperienced to have much of a chance against their superior speed, aerial play and experience...