But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Tim 3:13<\/i><\/p>\n
862<\/b> Trends In Counterfeiting<\/b><\/p>\n
According to The Nation\u2019s Business<\/i> some $23 million in counterfeit money was seized in the United States during fiscal 1972. <\/p>\n
The article pointed out that the modern counterfeiter appears willing to take greater risks in order to make greater profits. Secret Service Director James J. Rowley said the present counterfeiter \u201cnow deals directly with more people upon whom he has collected less background data than the counterfeiter of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Bible Expositor<\/i><\/p>\n
863<\/b> Counterfeit And Copying Machine <\/b><\/p>\n
A woman arrested for passing forged banknotes used an electrostatic copier in her office, the daily paper Aftonbladet<\/i> reported in Stockholm. <\/p>\n
It said the machine capable of churning out 9,000 near-perfect bills a minute\u2014could be used for forgery because the Swedish 1,000-crown ($240) note was printed entirely in black. <\/p>\n
864<\/b> $2 Million Fine<\/b><\/p>\n
A California superior court jury awarded Irving Mansfield, widower of the late novelist Jacqueline Susann, $2 million damages from 20th Century Fox in a suit over the movie, \u201cBeyond the Valley Of The Dolls.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suit was filed by Miss Susann, who had died of cancer, and Mansfield on the basis of asserted unfair competition in connection with an earlier movie, \u201cValley Of The Dolls,\u201d from a novel by Miss Susann. <\/p>\n
\u201cValley Of The Dolls\u201d grossed more than $30 million according to the suit, and \u201cBeyond The Valley Of The Dolls,\u201d not a Susann product, allegedly exploited her success to gross more than $20 million. <\/p>\n
The studio, it was charged, did not take \u201creasonable\u201d steps to disassociate the second film from Miss Susann, and that\u2019s the way the jury of seven women and five men saw it. <\/p>\n
865<\/b> Another Elvis Presley<\/b><\/p>\n
From the United Press International in London, Elvis Presley is about to make his British debut\u2014strumming his guitar and belting out rock-and-roll songs at a factory canteen. But it\u2019s not the Elvis Presley of \u201cLove Me Tender\u201d fame who died in 1977. This one is a 35-year-old Burmese immigrant. <\/p>\n
His name was Narinder Singh until he had it legally changed to Elvis Presley. \u201cI thought it would help my career as a performer,\u201d Singh, or Presley, said. <\/p>\n
866<\/b> Change Of Mind Hurts<\/b><\/p>\n
At Park Rapids, Minnesota, a tramp walked into a restaurant and asked the proprietor for a free meal. The hobo looked so hungry and bedraggled that the sympathetic restaurant man said, \u201cO. K., what\u2019ll yuh have?\u201d The tramp sat down at a table and had a good meal, a first-class handout. <\/p>\n
As the hobo was leaving, he walked up to the proprietor and even bummed a cigarette. He fished in a pocket for a match and along with the match he carelessly put out a twenty-dollar bill. <\/p>\n
\u201cSay, what\u2019s that,\u201d shouted the proprietor. \u201cYou come in here bumming a meal, and you\u2019ve got twenty bucks.\u201d And he grabbed the banknote. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut this was supposed to be a free meal,\u201d the hobo protested. <\/p>\n
\u201cNot on your life,\u201d restaurant man. \u201cI\u2019ll just take thirty-five cents out of this twenty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust remember, buddy,\u201d said the tramp. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to do this; I\u2019m not asking you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs zat so,\u201d responded the restaurant man, and he handed the hobo nineteen dollars and sixty-five cents in charge. <\/p>\n
The unhappy ending of the story is that when the proprietor took the money to the bank he found that the twenty-dollar bill he had taken from the hobo was counterfeit. <\/p>\n
867<\/b> $100,000 Bills<\/b><\/p>\n
New Orleans, Louisiana\u2014John R. Stark, a souvenir vendor, has beat federal counterfeiting charges and can go on selling his oversized $100,000-dollar bills. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe little guy won,\u201d says Stark, who claims to have printed more than 100 million dollars in imitation currency. He calls himself \u201cthe second largest money manufacturer in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
His money comes in two sizes\u2014two and four times the size of the original bill\u2014and is laminated onto a wooden plague. Denominations range from two to 100,000 dollars, and none of it is spendable. <\/p>\n
\u201cNonetheless, they arrested me, took me off in handcuffs in front of my children and charged me with counterfeiting,\u201d Stark says. They also seized his plaques. <\/p>\n
According to federal law, black-and-white photographs of money may be published in books for educational and historical purposes if the reproduction size is less than three-quarters the size of the bill or more than 1\u00bd times its size. The law is designed to prevent counterfeiting. <\/p>\n
After much negotiation, the US secret service agreed to let Stark sell his plaques if he would glue a leaflet to the back and put a wrapper around each like a money band. The wrapper would make the plaques qualify as books. Stark says he would agree to the conditions. <\/p>\n
\u2014Associated Press<\/i><\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Deceit ; Honesty ; Money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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