Word: cons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This film version of Ken Kesey's fable about a lunatic asylum in the Pacific Northwest lacks all the subtlety and tension that marked the novel in its best moments. But it does offer a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson perfectly cast as Randle Patrick McMurphy, the hard-living con man who sparks the inmates to rebel against the psychologically castrating Head Nurse only to find himself out-conned...
...eating a lunch of his wife's renowned chile con carne. While he finished his meal, she proudly showed TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman around the elegant three-story house in fashionable Georgetown. She had made the draperies herself. Later that January day, the newcomers to Washington talked about how their lives had been magically transformed. They made no effort to conceal their excitement. "I can tell already," said LaBelle Lance, "we're going to like Washington." Bert Lance was quick to agree: "This is the biggest thrill of my life...
Dozens of merchants and investors, deceived by flawless credentials, have trusted such newcomers and lost a great deal of money. Convicted murderers and con men have been placed in college and business communities, with some reverting to their old ways. For these and other reasons, the Justice Department is just now thoroughly reviewing its $13 million Witness Security Program to see, in the words of Deputy Attorney General Peter Flaherty, "if it's cost-effective." In a book published this week, The Alias Program (Little, Brown; $8.95), CBS Legal Correspondent Fred Graham raises additional problems that should also...
...flaws in Con Ed's system were so obvious, said Hauspurg, the FPC should have pointed them out before the blackout. Anyway, he added, Con Ed already is taking most of the short-term actions to strengthen the system that the FPC recommended, and it will not ask for a rate increase to pay for them-at least for a year or so. That is a welcome indication that Con Ed may have seen the light. Of late the company, which earned $301 million in 1976, has concentrated on improving its cash position. For the time being, though...
...thing for me to do." Murphy, 29, began twirling when he was five and later performed with his home-town high school band in Norwalk, Conn. "There was some teasing, but I wasn't bothered much," he says. According to Murphy, "baton twirling is harder than basketball. Con- centration is the key word and you have to be a more complete athlete." Murphy entered the Texas State Men's Twirling Championship two months ago -and won. He is now demonstrating routines like high tosses and the California Bounce to judges at the National Baton Twirling Championships in Denver...