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...sense of the cubist moment can never come again." Let's fervently hope you are right. That such a hoax has lasted so long is a tragedy for serious painting...
...August, just before his trial was to begin, Sindona disappeared. When he surfaced eleven weeks later, he had a bullet wound in his leg and swore he had been kidnaped by Italian terrorists. His defense later admitted that the tale was a hoax, and the bullet wound was never explained. Nor did Sindona ever say what he had done in Europe. Prosecutors at the trial suggested he had gone abroad to try to fake documents for his defense...
...current "volunteer" army is a disgraceful institution for any country that actively advocates an egalitarian social order. In reality, this method of military selection is merely a cruel hoax perpetrated upon the poorer classes of society, since these are the people who are forced into the military by their lack of jobs and other opportunities. A system whereby poor people are forced by economic necessity to risk their lives for the benefit of society at large is hardly egalitarian. The current composition of the army--30 per cent black and other third world people, the remainder largely poor and uneducated...
Although the companies keep records and don't send the same papers to the same campuses, some colleges have taken measures against the hoax. Some departments at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, have term paper catalogs on hand and when professors receive suspicious papers they check if there is a listing in the catalog for a similar paper with the same number of footnotes and bibliographical entries...
DIED. Sidney Margolius, 68, pioneering consumer affairs writer whose The Consumer's Guide to Better Buying (1947) sold 1 million copies; of a heart attack; in Roslyn, N.Y. Among his 20 books was The Great American Food Hoax (1971), an investigation of the food industry. His syndicated column on consumer affairs appeared in major newspapers across the country...