Word: extortionate
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Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black...
Poor No. He was an illegitimate child, farmed out to unfeeling foster parents. So naturally he grew up to be a mad scientist, joined the mad scientists' union (S.P.E.C.T.R.E.-the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion), and set out to rule the world. When 007 finds him...
Doctor No himself is a Chinese archfiend with black contact lenses and artificial hands who won his spurs in the Shanghai tong wars, and as a charter member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terror, Revenge and Extortion) he is almost a match for James Bond. His island off Jamaica...
This new U.S. zeal for an ancient art stems mostly from the impression made on President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev's flat declaration that Communism will seek to expand through nasty little undeclared "wars of national liberation." Explains Defense Secretary Robert McNamara: "These wars are often not wars at...
Worse yet. to hold the cops at bay the artnapers had coolly let it be known that they possessed still a third trove of stolen paintings-57 works lifted last July in St.-Tropez. The St.-Tropez paintings had proved to be uninsured and hard to get ransom for, but...