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...nation. This past year the affliction seems to have spread even to the highest reaches of our own university. Indeed, almost as often as our brothers at Columbia, we have had occasion to recall the late Upton Sinclair's descripiton of the modern college president as "the most universal faker and the most variegated prevaricator that has yet appeared in the civilized world...

Author: By Henry Norr, | Title: "These Are Times for Real Choices" | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

Every year the art faker's job gets just a little bit harder, thanks to the development of new scientific methods for determining the real age of works of art. Now atomic energy has been called to aid, as two recent developments on the art sleuthing scene testify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes & Frauds: Atoms for Detection | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...accompanies her rich and awful aunt (Brenda de Banzie) on a trip to the mysterious East. In Singapore, Auntie eats too much and sinks like a stone in the hotel swimming pool. Hayley wastes neither tears nor time in living and loving it up with a handsome Indian faker who wheels and deals in everything from hot cameras to cool chicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Matter of Innocence | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...from his managers than any other player in baseball. Bill Rigney called him "a little boy, to whom winning a pennant isn't as important as it ought to be." Alvin Dark complained that Cepeda had "more minuses than pluses." Herman Franks said he was "lazy" and "a faker," publicly accused him of malingering when he was crippled by a knee injury that hampered him for two years and finally required surgery. Last year Cepeda demanded to be traded. The Giants obligingly shipped him to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for a pitcher who had won only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Proof of the Pluses | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...amendment supporter shouted "you are a moralizing faker," when an Executive committee member defended the present system. They started fighting and had to be separated forcibly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Brief Scuffle Ends HDC Debate Over Executive Committee Change | 2/28/1967 | See Source »

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