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*"The Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an...
Triple Scolding. Given the widespread public and student repugnance to the supporters of obscenity, Kerr might not have had to be so fastidious. Instead, he passed the buck to two faculty committees that had been set up to handle problems of student conduct in border line areas between scholarly discipline...
By a short 30 minutes, the Justice Department failed in 1961 in its bid to block a merger between New York's Manufacturers Trust Co. and the Hanover Bank. Aware that Justice viewed the merger as a violation of the antitrust laws, the banks speeded up their negotiations, legally...
Dividing an Omelet. Still angry over the 1961 maneuver, the Justice Department is not in a compromising mood, intends to press for a split-up. "Some persons seem to feel that you can't unscramble an omelet," says William H. Orrick Jr., head of Justice's antitrust division...
Ranger VIII hit the ten-mile target at the correct speed, set itself at the proper angle to the sun and the earth, and kept in tight communication with its ground-control stations. About 17 hours after launch, the command came from its masters at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion...