Word: blackmailing
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...felt. One successful counterattack against the trend is group action. In Charlotte, N.C., for example, some parents have organized a Parents' League to set up "recommendations" for social activities from the sixth grade on. By mutually standing fast, they have been able to fend off that age-old blackmail of the young, "Well, Susie's mother lets her . . ." Sixth-grade parties are all male or all female, and they end by 9 p.m. Seventh-graders can learn ballroom dancing, but social dances and dating are discouraged. Double dating is allowed in the ninth grade, single dating...
...federal workers. At stake is more than $250 million in federal aid now granted to schools attended by 1.6 million children, many in the South. The mere threat of a test case brought anguished cries from South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who labeled it "a flagrant act of economic blackmail...
Victim. An entertaining but tendentious thriller about blackmail and homosexuals...
...Everett Jordan: "I didn't recognize a thing in it.""We're much more complicated than that," said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy. Growled South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who objected to the movie's scenes dealing with one Senator's homosexuality (and consequent blackmail): "I don't think it will be wholesome for either our people or those abroad." Ed Murrow, a man not often at a loss for words, did not even care to think about what the film would do to the U.S. image overseas. "Aw," he groaned...
Victim. An entertaining but tendentious thriller about blackmail and homosexuals...