Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Charles LaPoint, 23, an ex-Army paratrooper, used a fake bomb to obtain $50,000 and two parachutes from Hughes Airwest. He jumped to safety 80 miles northeast of Denver, but was later captured...
...Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, an unemployed father of seven, used a fake bomb and a starter's pistol to extract $200,000 from Mohawk Airlines. An FBI agent gunned down VonGeorge as he and his stewardess hostage entered a getaway car in Purchase...
...ticket was an ounce of grass and seven grams of hash, or, from scalpers, $50 cash; by Chicago, the price for a $6.50 ticket had risen to $70-accompanied by the rumor that someone had printed and sold a quarter of a million dollars' worth of fake tickets, which, mercifully, did not turn up at the gate; and in New York, it may well be around $100. The chance of getting a ticket over the counter has irrevocably gone. To frustrate scalpers, the tour managers set up a kind of electronic lottery in which supplicants sent postcards six weeks...
Throughout Sunday night and yesterday, McGovern volunteers were left to mimeograph, find and call. Onlookers milled in the brilliantly lit lobby of the Doral admist the fake Louis XIV furniture, and the McGovern staff, high stop the green glass flanks of the hotel, directed the massive California effort which groped frantically through every bleached hotel lobby along the beach
...left Spain when the Loyalists were defeated in the Spanish Civil War--is sensitive to the criticism directed at the Science Center and his two other Harvard buildings, Holyoke Center and the Peabody Terrace married student dormitories. "You can stick to the old styles, or make imitations or fake them, but it would be very difficult," he said. "But I can't imagine how we could build the Science Center in Georgian style...