Word: cons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thorough is Lewis' dedication to Western fiction that he leaves the family farm in Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis...
...little work as an extra, hangs around the Tumbleweed offices, gets tight with a grizzled old coot named Howard Pike (Andy Griffith), has a shot at being a cowboy star himself, meets a girl (Blythe Banner), works on his novel, and tries to stay away from the two con men who have tracked him all the way to L.A., looking for their strongbox...
TRIBAL THUMB. With 25 members, predominantly men, the group is centered in Palo Alto. Its leader is Earl Satcher, a reputed black karate expert and ex-con with an 18-year criminal record. When some members were arrested for parole violations recently, they were found to have quantities of revolutionary tracts. But one member said that the pamphlets were for show; he asserted that the organization sought money from radicals but actually is chiefly interested in nonrevolutionary crime...
Many patrolmen say Gorski has con-centrated his efforts too much on scientific administrative methods and staffing in the headquarters, while local crime demands that more foot patrolmen be hired...
Some examples of thoroughly commercial promotions: Rich Products Corp., maker of Coffee Rich, offers a "Bicentennial Kit" ("It includes an actual copy of the Declaration of Independence ...") in an ad headlined "Coffee Rich started a revolution in good taste." d-CON insecticide offers six free flag decals or, for $2, a Bicentennial T shirt. Its ad concludes: "So get a little American history free from d-CON, the people who are helping to free America from bugs." Nabisco offers grocers a cardboard kit that unfolds into a display stand-for Nabisco items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called...