Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire for revenue, partly out of simple desire, both industrialists decided to seduce the lady. She agreeably went off to America with one of them, came back with her virginity intact. Then she convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial scheme, deserted him. Novelist Vailland. a sometime Communist who died in May, was also a successful journalist and film scenarist (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). His prizewin-nine novel, The Law, was a compelling study of greed, lust and power politics in a small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell...
...years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising...
...gallery currently at hand are three idiotic young jailbirds fresh out of prison and admonished to "limit yourselves to a little honest pilfering." They are quickly embroiled in hijacking a train, kidnaping a German NATO general, and grabbing a payroll of about ?1,000,000. Mastermind of the scheme is a bespectacled genius (Anton Rodgers) who operates a crime school fronting as a nature clinic where dotty old ladies imbibe mineral water laced with gin. Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed...
...Mayor (and, at least in theory, to the BRA). Since that time, these two men have worked in tandem to develop and transform into reality The New Boston, and Collins has essentially placed his political career on the line with the success or failure of the redevelopment scheme...
State Senator Beryl W. Cohen 'D Brookline', at the urging of North Harvard community leaders, filed an emergency bill to modify the North Harvard renewal plan. The bill would require the BRA to change its renewal scheme from one of demolition and new construction to one of rehabilitation of existing structures. It would also stop the BRA from demolishing any more buildings or evicting any more residents for any reason except the non-payment of rent...