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...comes down on "Jock" for his systematic "academic rip-offs" from other students during exams, and rebuffs Stan because he never seems to get any work done, preferring to imbibe spirits, smoke, and the girl across the hall. JC--as the rich, useless preppie from St. Paul's--attracts disdain from his roommates, who see him "taken care of" by his wealthy father; Tim, on the other hand, is the prim, self-sufficient perfection of the Greek ideal, envied by Stan for his diligence and direction...
Shouldn't the title of your story on fashions [Nov. 7] have been "Put-Ons, Rip-Offs and Un-Dress"? Practical? Luncheons? Meetings? In these clothes...
James Schlesinger carried his battle for the Administration's energy program deep into hostile territory last week, traveling to Houston to address a meeting of 3,000 oil and gas executives. They represented the industry that President Carter last month accused of plotting "the greatest rip-off in history," and Schlesinger's mission seemed to be to plead for peace and understanding. He did-but only to a point. Denying the industry's basic complaint that the Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy...
Theft of office equipment is nothing new in Manhattan, but the latest rip-off story tears at the heart strings. Two well-dressed men walked into one of the fancier nursing homes on the Upper East Side during visiting hours and were soon afterward seen solicitously wheeling a 90-year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket...
...trouble has been greatly aggravated by Carter's televised assault on the oilmen who oppose his energy program as profiteers out to "rob" American consumers and stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have...