Word: blackmailer
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...Touch of Blackmail? After George's colleagues had crowded around him to shake his hand, it was the turn of another old man, Rhode Island's 88-year-old Democrat Theodore Francis Green, to add up some of the real reasons why the foreign-aid bill was in trouble...
...deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence on the West and established himself as a hero in the Arab world. But it was a triumph that had a price: it put his dealings with the U.S. on a basis that. was sometimes not far from blackmail, and as a result removed some of his idealist sheen in U.S. eyes...
...Olson. Excerpts from his waggish call for the perfect legman: "I want a combination copy boy, telephone answerer, coffee maker ... an eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably a liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through, his career terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked his "queen's animal." Tom Deutschle, 38, ex-Chicago Sun newshawk and now a Loop pressagent, agreed to take the masochistic...
...then a political lawyer with a puppeteer's talent for running the show from behind the scenes. Along the way, he exploits and blows cigar smoke into the faces of a whole range of characters, from his liberal-minded wife (whom he marries for her vineyards), and a blackmail-prone professor, up to the top brass of the California Democratic Party. He is cool, ruthless, sadistic; even his one friend, Hank Moore, sees him as a lost, fragmented being-an "upward mobile...
...truth be told, all the skills of American business, its ingenuity in advertising, and its shameless appeal to sentiment as well, are employed by the institution in building up its endowments from living alumni.... At its worst the procedure borders dangerously on something like blackmail or a professional racket...