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...have at least one fake," says Joseph Chapman, former FBI agent on art frauds. The problem in routing out the fakers is that the gulled buyer will rarely swear out a complaint, often chooses to auction off his mistakes or donate them to charitable organizations as a tax write-off. Says one Los Angeles investigator: "How many con games are there that have the power to convert the victims into accomplices after they have found out that they have been...
...alive," Hosking said later. "But then I saw an arm move." Securely strapped into his fleece-lined welded-steel cockpit, which escaped serious damage (although the canopy was ripped off), Arfons was not only alive-except for some cuts and bruises, he was absolutely unhurt. Monster was a total write-off. Arfons was ready to try again. "I've got another engine at home," he said...
...contrast between the shortage of skilled labor and the continuing unemployment of the unskilled is winning support in Congress for a bill that would help right the inequity. It would allow businessmen a 7% income tax write-off on the cost of employee training, a move intended to spur the upgrading of such underemployed groups as high school dropouts, teen-agers and Negroes...
...White's exhaustive treatment of civil rights in 1964. He brushes off the Freedom Democratic Party's stubbornness in Atlantic City as of no consequence, as a repudiation of "the triumph that morality had wrong for them out of the laws of the Convention. "This seems a hasty write-off for what may go down as the first effort to take Negroes out of the major parties in the South, to make them a political force independent of Republican or Democratic organizations...
...with the purchase of 17 of the 30 Super VC-10s; the Royal Air Force will take three, and production of the remaining ten will be suspended. To meet the payments of $9,000,000 per VC-10, BOAC now needs a larger handout, or perhaps even a write-off of part or all of its accumulated $224 million deficit. Said Sir Giles: "The government will ensure that financially we will be in no worse a position as a result of taking on these aircraft." That was rather negative assurance. Hard-pressed BOAC announced stiff reductions in operating expenses, including...