Word: extortionate
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The debate over the Viet Nam war has produced a rash of newsletters, proclamations and manifestoes, most of which are forgotten almost as soon as they are written. Two new magazines devoted to the subject, however, seem determined to last as long as the war. Viet-Report, a monthly, stands...
There have been beatings, riots and extortion at Job Corps camps, where underprivileged youths from 16 to 21 are housed and given job training. Bureaucratic delays in processing Job Corps applications have caused countless prospective trainees to lose interest in the program. In Chicago and other cities, critics of anti...
> Postponements for "further hearings," says Specter, give magistrates "an opportunity to extort money from defendants prior to disposition at the preliminary hearing." While tending a friend's bar in 1963, Juan Martinez was arrested for letting in a minor. Magistrate Harry J. Ellick reportedly commented: "Big people pay $500...
The Black Gang. What a tourist can do most easily, though, is get clipped. Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including...
It was brand-new and the proud property of a nightclub waiter named Heinz ("Harry the Ox") Hopp. When Muller expropriated the coat for himself, Hopp got hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for...