Word: fakes
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...Secret Service announced that during the last fiscal year it had made the biggest haul of counterfeit U.S. money in history. Reason: an increase in counterfeiting abroad. Of $3,094,000 in seized fake money, $2,145,200 was uncovered in the raid which U.S. agents and French Police made jointly in Marseille...
...real cause, brought out by psychiatric study, is more likely to be "a deep sense of guilt with an unquestionable penchant for self-punishment." Frequently an attempt at suicide is a symptom of some serious personality disorder. Young people, they found, are more likely than older ones to stage fake suicide attempts for dramatic effect...
...steadily for compulsory national health insurance - which has led to frequent battles with economically orthodox medical thinkers and famed verbal brawls with Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Deutsch agrees with the A.M.A.'s scientific activities, cooperates with the association in exposing fake drugs and quacks, but he delights in the fact that a cancer-cure artist whom both had exposed sued the A.M. A. for only $250,000, Deutsch...
...northern Greece, Communist General Markos continued his stubborn defense of his Mount Grammos stronghold, which six government divisions were attacking. Markos' men cut off part of a convoy and burned alive 16 wounded soldiers caught in it. Then he broadcast a "peace offer"-which Athens, deeming it a fake, rejected...
Riefenstahl's Olympische Spiele, for all its fake slants and supermanic chest-beating, was by far the best and most exhaustive sports record ever put on film. She used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...