Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harried Officials. The very volume of claims has encouraged abuses. In Michigan, for example, the number of unemployment claims increased from 64,000 three years ago to 560,000 last year. To handle them, recalls Employment Security Commission Director S. Martin Taylor, the state had to set up temporary claims offices "in union halls, 15 state armories and almost any other place large enough to serve throngs." Harried officials obviously could not give each case anything like the scrutiny it deserved...
Successful Tool. Though the FBI says it uses hypnosis sparingly, mesmerizing consenting witnesses is on the increase as a police investigative tool. The Los Angeles Police Department has worked with the technique since 1970. Noting its success, Psychologist Martin Reiser, head of the L.A.P.D.'S behavioral-sciences services, decided last year to set up a special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force...
...hangs around the speakeasy run by Fat Sam (John Cassisi). The saloon's songbird in residence, Tallulah (Jodie Foster), cracks plenty wise but is kind of sweet on Bugsy, who has eyes only for Blousey (Florrie Dugger), a girl with heavy Hollywood ambitions. Meantime, Dandy Dan (Martin Lev) is muscling in on Fat Sam's territory, making use of a deadly new weapon called the "splurge gun." Fat Sam, lacking this latest in weaponry, must defend his holdings with that most ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little...
Fleecing Friars. Roselli got along famously with the Jessel-Sinatra crowd, but again temptation got in his way. In 1968 he and four others were convicted of swindling members of the Friars - including Comedians Phil Silvers and Zeppo Marx and Singer Tony Martin -out of some $400,000 by cheating at cards. The elaborate fleecing system involved observers in the attic who peered through peepholes to read the cards of the players. They then flashed coded electronic signals to a member of the ring seated at the table, who picked up the messages on equipment he wore on a girdle...
...spending all his efforts on launching his career as a matinee idol. Earlier this year, in Washington. D.C., he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in Josh Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream. He is currently working on a Universal back lot, playing the part of Black Composer Scott Joplin for an NBC special this fall. His mustache shorn, his hair slickly marcelled, Billy Dee sits before a dummy piano, miming perfect syncopation to Joplin's ragtime. Suddenly, on cue, he is distracted by the arrival of a lovely onlooker (Black Actress Margaret A very). Their eyes meet...