Word: blackmailing
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...comes Mrs. Prentice's previous night's lover, Nick (Charles Murphy), a hotel bellboy in full uniform who wants to blackmail the lady with some morning-after photo negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings...
...cases. One who has done just that is Benning Wentworth, an electronics technician employed by a New Jersey defense contractor; for nearly four years he has been fighting a Defense Department attempt to revoke his security clearance. He challenges the traditional assumption that all homosexuals are vulnerable to blackmail and therefore unsuited to jobs that give them access to secret information. How can he be blackmailed, Wentworth argues, when he openly admits that he is a homosexual? It is a question the Defense Department may not find easy to answer...
...last week. Contributing to the decline was a scandal that surfaced last month, when a Webb subsidiary sued the estate of a deceased Sahara official for $500,000 that he was alleged to have siphoned out of the casino. Investigations have uncovered evidence of blackmail and possibly murder...
...along the Strip, a small army of investigators-the D.A.'s men, SEC investigators, IRS and FBI agents-are getting in one another's way searching for information on cases ranging from suspected murder to income tax evasion, blackmail, embezzlement and stock fraud. It is probably no coincidence that some hotel and casino officials have left town in a hurry. Pierre P. Mottoros, an analyst with Equity Research Associates, explains the entire situation with deliberate understatement: "I'm afraid that Las Vegas and casinos still have an image that deters conservative money...
...reform and political reform. The latter involves reform of the present laws against homosexual behavior between consenting adults in private and reform of discriminatory policies and practices. Examples of such discriminatory policies and practices include discrimination of homosexuals in federal and non-federal employment, hidden surveillance, bar raids, extortion, blackmail, police harassment and enticement, notification of employers upon police arrest, brutality, registration of homosexuals, inability to obtain security clearances, and dishonorable discharge from the military services. And finally, GSHA sponsors constructive social activities for homosexuals...