Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest and least-known rackets in the U.S. today is the traffic in stolen, counterfeit, outdated and smuggled, substandard drugs. An honest pharmacist may unwittingly buy them from an apparently legitimate wholesaler. A crooked druggist may seek them out. So far, no regulatory agency has been able to determine how many of the billion or more prescriptions handled annually by U.S. pharmacists are filled with substandard items. But the racket is growing, and with it, the potential danger to unsuspecting patients...
...early that Jackie was pregnant with John Jr., was the first to pry confirmation from John Kennedy. She broke the story on President Johnson's rejection of the Peter Hurd portrait. Far from content with pool coverage, the Chicago Daily News's Colleen Dishon had an expert counterfeit an invitation to get her own reporter into the Jay Rockefeller-Sharon Percy wedding...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.).*William Holden and Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), based on the real-life exploits of Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who sympathized with the Germans but spied for the Allied High Command in World...
...Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
...pious. Murderers dress as monks. Treachery promotes itself as loyalty. Love is feigned, so is madness, even death. The last deceit-self-deceit-is stripped away in Flamineo's final speech when he sees life as he has lived it: the consummate cheat, the ultimate vanity, the supreme counterfeit. At that moment, The White Devil becomes a tragedy of more than blood...