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...they've planned together. While his brother sat tight in London acting the model man, upholder of Elizabeth's England, the Stripling got expelled from Cambridge and Sandhurst. The story shows how The stripling and Mr. Suave prove they're brilliant, the less likely one proves he's even trickier, both wind up in jail. Tucked around the robbery are proper teas, not-so-proper behaviour after tea, some sightseeing, and a coming-out party distinguished by champagne showers and firecrackers. A modest farce...

Author: By Joel DE Mott, | Title: The Jokers | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...legislators worry about accepting expense-account meals or attending lavish parties. Paid hotel suites, rides in company planes, weekends or vacations can be a little trickier. Practically every member of Congress has some wealthy friends and acquaintances, many of them with country houses where a legislator can recuperate from the Washington wear and tear. Indiana's Charles Halleck, onetime Republican House minority leader, judiciously chooses speaking dates in localities near hunting or fishing lodges owned by his longtime friends, to which he can slip away once his political appearance is done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS: Who Can Afford to Be Honest? | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the role stamps - as well as their trickier cousins, prizegiving promotional games - play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchandising: Stamps: Taking a Licking | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...amount of clamor from Harvard's dissatisfied cadets will ever change drill. The ROTC euphemism for it is "leadership lab." Cadets simply endure most of it, for two hours every week. But those who have a chance to take charge and lead the drills say that it is trickier than it looks, and does give them a certain amount of confidence in their leadership abilities...

Author: By Joseph A. Davis, | Title: Vietnam and Lowered Requirements Bring New Changes and Growth to ROTO | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

MIRAGE. A plot that often seems trickier than a Chinese puzzle is pieced together entertainingly by a traumatized scientist (Gregory Peck) and a rather inept private eye (Walter Matthau) who keeps his wit about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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