Word: conly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measures, Hank Mosiello (B.S., New York University; M.S., Columbia) is no ordinary con. Within a month of his arrival, he enrolled in a correspondence law course, then organized Trenton's other jailhouse lawyers into Inmate Legal Associates, the first paralegal guild in a U.S. prison. The owner of about 600 lawbooks, Mosiello is sufficiently well-versed in their contents to have freelanced some 50 briefs for private attorneys at $200 each. His legal specialties are corporate law and medical-malpractice suits...
...House is strongly opposed, and several members of TIME'S Board of Economists also doubt the value of comprehensive controls now. If controls had any effect, says IBM Vice President David Grove, "it would be to cause delays in business investment decisions. I think it would be a con game...
...Syrian President Assad may well consent to a renewal of the U.N. mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate...
...only in his knowledge of New York's streets. As a teen-ager on the Lower East Side, where he still lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter, Raab remembers being "surrounded by the kind of legendary criminals you read about-bookmakers, con artists, Jewish and Italian gangsters. I grew up with guys I later covered." The son of Polish and Austrian immigrants, Raab boxed in the 60-lb. class for the city parks department (17 wins) and later attended City College. Afterward he worked on Connecticut and New Jersey newspapers before returning to New York...
...Con Ed does not have a monopoly on brown-outs. The Harvard soccer team, thanks to the NCAA tournament seedings released yesterday, will be seeing brown twice in the next week. Following a key Ivy League clash with Brown this Saturday in Cambridge, the Crimson squad will travel to Providence, R.I., a week from today to battle the Bruins in the opening round of the New England district playoffs...