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...stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement: the Cortes was to be abolished forthwith, and "a competent military authority" would arrive within half an hour...
...most colleges, students are failed forthwith when caught submitting ghost work as their own. But few are caught. Only a handful of states (including Maryland and Pennsylvania) have specifically outlawed campus ghostwriting for profit. New York has one of the toughest laws, threatening fines and jail terms of up to 90 days for ghostwriters who help college students with assignments. So far officials have found the law difficult to enforce. New York prosecutors first won a court injunction against Collegiate Research Systems Inc., the target of last week's raid, in 1978. Company President John Magee, 29, responded with...
...celebrity. As he notes in this wry saga, it was his publications and authors who became household names. Those authors live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb...
...restore economic growth. And while he insisted that there would be no break in relations with Havana, he left little doubt that he planned to alter Jamaica's foreign policy. He asked the Cuban Ambassador, who had been accused of meddling in Jamaican affairs, to leave the island forthwith...
...become convinced that the Last Days were at hand, that the world had fallen into the hands of the only species which knew how to destroy itself along with all other living creatures on earth, that whenever in history this species had invented a weapon, it had forthwith used it ..." The list continues, building a case against mankind that is hard to refute. Will's convictions may be overheated, but they are not insane...