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...whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark in the struggle for integration. ∙ Died. Leroy "Buddy" McHugh, 84, legendary police reporter; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last survivor of the brash Chicago press corps depicted in The Front Page, McHugh used every ploy to scoop competitors: posing as a coroner to get privileged information, hiding behind police sergeants' desks and answering their phones. Though he reported some 700 murders, McHugh's greatest coup came in 1952 when he filed a series of interviews with an escaped swindler before persuading...
...ripping off gas stations belonging to an oil company that has done him wrong in some unspecified way. The Dixie Dancekings are a musical organization that operates about as far up country as you can get without actually becoming a hermit. The former joins the latter -uninvited-as a ploy to elude a cop who has trailed him into a roadhouse where the Dancekings are playing. W.W. has no difficulty persuading the law that he is the group's manager. He goes on to convince the group that if he actually took over for them, fame and fortune...
...defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest recorded ancestor is the existence of a document showing that Lambert Massynberd was had up for [doing] grievous bodily harm in 1288."Note the strategy? First the more-felonious-ancestry-than-thou ploy, then hit them with the 700-year-old family...
Instead of assessing the blame equally, you, your President and his Secretary of State have resorted to the unworthy ploy of scapegoating...
Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...