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...referring to him grandly as "William E. Brock the Third" and "the candy man from Lookout Mountain" to underscore Brock's wealth as heir to a candy fortune and his place of residence: the posh blueblood area of Chattanooga. Bill Brock may wince at such mischief, but the ploy is hardly sufficient in itself to frustrate the conservative's bid for a second term. However, a looming Carter landslide in the state and Sasser's tireless and folksy campaign are genuinely formidable obstacles for Brock to overcome...
...under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really want to." Roberts has become almost catatonic, neglects her housework and her appearance, and stoops, desperately, to the last ploy she can think of to blackmail Finney back: "If you walk out that door," she threatens, "I'll klll myself, and the kids too." But when he goes she pours the three glasses of Nembutal she had prepared in with the rest of the unwashed dishes and then... well...
...pockets." He caused a flutter just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas City by making himself available for the presidential nomination, a foredoomed maneuver seen as an effort to block Jerry Ford for a while and keep alive the chances of Conservative Ronald Reagan. For Buckley, the ploy was characteristically unorthodox; although 40% of the state's voters live in New York City, he initially refused to support federal aid for the municipality during its financial crisis-a point that Moynihan, with great relish, is already saying illustrates his opponent's "antique" attitudes...
...hypnosis. Kroger sat with Chowchilla Bus Driver Ed Ray in a Fresno motel room and told him to fix his eyes on a spot on the wall and breathe deeply. Twenty minutes later Ray was under hypnosis. Dr. Kroger then led him through a playback of the kidnaping. The ploy worked. The driver was able to recall all but one digit of the license plate on the kidnapers' white van. The information helped authorities track down three suspects who go on trial later this month...
...manage. The company faces a number of problems, including its only marginally successful casinos and a lawsuit involving Air West, the airline Hughes purchased in 1968. Most urgently, the company must convert itself from being an old man's whim into a real moneymaker. If the Lummis-Summa ploy to escape inheritance taxes fails, the company will be forced to pay an estimated $750 million to the Federal Government...