Word: counterfeited
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Founded in 1865 to combat the rising tide of counterfeit "greenbacks" then flooding the country, the agency now numbers some 1,500 special agents, up from 389 at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Once selected, a recruit is dispatched to offices around the country to help track down counterfeiters and pursue stolen or forged Government checks and bonds. Only superior agents are eventually picked to serve in the protection service, which is responsible for guarding not only the President, the Vice President and their families, but also presidential candidates and former Presidents...
...Allentown, Pa., five teen-agers have been charged with forgery in a scheme involving hundreds of counterfeit $1 and $5 bills that were printed in their high school shops. The extralegal, extra-credit work began when a junior at William Allen High School fashioned his aunt a novel Christmas gift: a "money tree," fluttering with $5 bills the boy had run off on the school's press. The boy's uncle promptly destroyed the present. But some of the artful student's classmates swiped hundreds of the spurious notes...
...When the counterfeit currencies began appearing in local retail stores and restaurants-at least 36 fake bills were spent in all-somebody called the cops. (Finally even the U.S. Secret Service joined the investigation.) Allentown police arrested the bill passers-but not the two high school boys who had created the bogus scrip-and turned their cases over to juvenile authorities. The police at least gave the budding young printers good marks for their technically criminal craft. Said Lieut. Ronald Neimeyer: "The bills looked good. The quality and the color were not great, but they were absolutely perfect in every...
...brought the lantern lower, until its light fell ... It was a pit of quicklime; and, as the lantern descended closer, it could be seen that the gases had swollen within it and forced up a counterfeit image of what it had consumed...
...bastard son of Monty Python's Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should...