Word: extortionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to buy peace from a totalitarian regime is analogous to dealing with an extortionist. By offering South Viet Nam, we may have peace for a short time, but we will soon find ourselves faced with the same problem again, only this time the price will be even greater...
Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...victim is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the script: "A law which sends homosexuals to prison"-as Britain's does-"is a charter for blackmail." As the film begins, a young homosexual (Peter McEnery) who has robbed his employer to pay his extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally (though not sexually) involved, the boy commits suicide. Deeply shocked, the lawyer resolves to break up the extortion racket, even if he has to risk his marriage (Sylvia Syms) and wreck...
...wildest dreams, Castro could hardly have hoped that the U.S. Government-which once went into battle on the ringing cry of "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute"-would lend itself to meeting his extortionist demands. Little did he know. Although great efforts were made to keep the whole thing secret, it was soon as obvious as John Kennedy's forelock that the President himself had taken the initiative in setting up the Roosevelt-Reuther-Eisenhower movement...
Divorce Revealed. Joseph ("Socks") Lanza, 59, once-tough labor extortionist whose short-lived 1957 parole made headlines as a political scandal; by Ellen Connor Lanza, 50, a plump blonde who sobbed, "Don't worry, honey" when Lanza was led back to jail; after 19 years of marriage (best man: Gangster Frank Costello), no children; six months ago in Mexico, while Socks was still in prison...