Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small wonder. Inmates apparently learned how to crack the computer code governing Internal Revenue Service audits. Since prisoners must file tax returns on any outside income, some saw a golden opportunity. Knowing how to hoodwink the computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license...
...would also have to do well in the Mountain and the Border state areas, crack at least a couple of the Southern states, and capture a pair or more of the heavyweights, such as California and Pennsylvania, to reach the magic 270. It will take some doing, but Ford claims to be encouraged by the results of private polls in 18 "battleground" states, which include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, where he thinks he stands a chance of winning. An assessment of the Ford-Carter standings...
...help crack the case, the bureau called in Dr. William S. Kroger, an authority on medical hypnosis. Kroger sat with Chowchilla Bus Driver Ed Ray in a Fresno motel room and told him to fix his eyes on a spot on the wall and breathe deeply. Twenty minutes later Ray was under hypnosis. Dr. Kroger then led him through a playback of the kidnaping. The ploy worked. The driver was able to recall all but one digit of the license plate on the kidnapers' white van. The information helped authorities track down three suspects who go on trial later...
Deputy Superintendent Narindar Nath Tuli, 52, a crack New Delhi detective, got a strange feeling when a call came in from the three-star Vikram Hotel. The agitated hotel manager complained that 20 French tourists registered at the hotel were vomiting and rolling about as if they were drunk. Worse, they were accusing the manager of having poisoned them. Tuli, remembering that Interpol had alerted police to a series of druggings and murders of tourists in India and Southeast Asia, rushed over to the Vikram. There he was struck by a peculiar fact: only one of the group...
...works in Florida, North Carolina and Michigan. Says William McLaughlin, G.O.P. state chairman in Michigan: "The weakness of the Republican Party is that when we go to the ghetto to talk about what we have done, we have to send a white man. Because we've been unable to crack the black vote, we don't have elected black officials. We're in a chicken-and-egg situation. How do we elect that first black guy to go in and help sell our program...