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...trap. It was the twelfth straight year that production has increased. While there are not enough zeroes in these figures to dazzle anyone on Wall Street, they are remarkable in Albia. All the more so because the Knesses, defying the collective wisdom of American commerce, neither advertise nor employ salesmen to bring the trap to their customers...
...dissenting opinion supporting Rep. John Anderson's 50-50 gas plan never mentions the people for whom this harebrained scheme would prove an absolute disaster. Above all this plan would attack those who depend on gasoline for a living: salesmen, drivers, deliverymen and cabbies--to name just a few. There is no way a flat reduction in Social Security (SS) taxes would be enough to compensate these people...
...might then say discreetly, "If you act now, I can squeeze you in on a contract." While most of the contracts have not yet fallen due, investigators allege that brokers in fact do not possess the oil to back up the bogus deals. Eventually, customers would find that the salesmen had either left town or were no longer in business at the time of delivery...
...phone scams. Like some Hydraheaded monster, one get-rich-quick operation is no sooner closed down than another takes its place. Federal and state agents are usually one step behind boiler-room artists ready to sell to a gullible public. Says Attorney General Robert Abrams: "The same types of salesmen who brought us underwater land, worthless uranium stocks and phony gold certificates are in the process of perpetrating on the American public their latest scheme-oil futures contracts." A lawyer with the New York attorney general's office last week lamented that the masters of scam would probably soon...
...Connor's phantasmagoric parable by translating the writer's prose into cinematic and dramatic terms. The film's settings are glutted with eclectic religious artifacts and the documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood...