Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crazy Quilt. Henry (Tom Rosqui) is a realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...
...ethically debatable but are, by definition, not illegal. In fact, the American is a model taxpayer, and was so even before Internal Revenue installed its formidable, automated data-processing system known as "the Machine." The Government last year indicted fewer than 2,000 out of 102.5 million taxpayers for fraud. Even the most pessimistic estimate of unreported income-$26 billion a year-suggests that more than 95% of all income was reported...
Second only to taxes, credit is seen as an area of everyday fraud. Initially, America's burgeoning credit-card business suffered considerable damage from high livers who could buy now but not pay later. The magic inherent in those little plastic rectangles hypnotized many into becoming adventurers-such as the man whose idea of the good life was to bed down in a variety of hospitals on stolen Blue Cross cards. But such abuses are now insignificant-thanks to more responsible screening of applicants and automated accounting techniques-even though credit keeps expanding. In department-store charge accounts...
...this may be true enough, or at least half true, but such assumptions are usually accompanied by the nostalgic and false notion that the past was better, more straightforward, more honest. The fact is that in freewheeling 19th-century America, high-level fraud was far more spectacular than today, when business, trade and politics must function under rigid controls and searching publicity. What has increased is the opportunity for the pettier kinds of cheating, largely because of the growth of communities and of population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities...
Dead Putsches. The most amazing fact about the whole convention was that Jimmy Hoffa continued, despite everything, to exert his iron hold on the Teamsters. After all, Hoffa was convicted in 1964 for conspiracy and fraud in the handling of Teamster pension funds. That year he was also found guilty of attempting to suborn a jury in a 1962 trial in which he was accused of accepting a bribe from trucking operators. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison, remains free while the cases are under appeal.* He has been ostracized by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., been hit by Government...