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...outrageous schemes to trap '72 Democratic Convention delegates with call girls. As the President, Rip Torn does a gleefully vicious Nixon impersonation, whether he is re-enacting private Oval Office conversations (with bleeps in place of expletives) or declaring to the world that he is "not a crook...
Small and big traders and middlemen are charging huge spot-market premiums over and above the OPEC price. Because profits can reach billions a year, you have to expect that the spot trade will increase by hook or crook, and I mean the words literally. When OPEC sees how much money is made on its oil by in-between traders, the producing countries will have no political choice but to increase their own prices and divert more oil to the spot market. That was clear from the moment the Iranian crisis broke. Our Government was made well aware...
THERE'S SOMETHING MYTHICAL about the daring crook who manages to pull off the perfect heist. From England's great train robbers to the parachuting D.B. Cooper, these characters usually grab public attention for a few weeks on the front pages, and then pass quietly into the annals of folk-mythology...
...Majority Rule. I have always believed in qualifications for the vote - a kind of meritocracy, as opposed to democracy. I think it leads to better government. I am critical of the system Jin which] a man who is an absolute rotter, a crook, has the same say as the best man in your land, the most brilliant man. I wonder whether democracy will survive under those circumstances...
...Eleanor Crook New York City...