Word: extortionate
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Now in several of America's largest cities, the gangs are back-and with some ominous differences. Older, better armed, more sophisticated, the gangs today operate in all too deadly earnest. New York City has had 27 gang-related murders reported this year-ten of them in the seething...
An equally ominous new area of investigation was reported to be under way by the increasingly active staff of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The New York Times claimed that a special grand jury may be convened to explore the possibility that the Nixon fund raisers employed "extortion" tactics in...
After weeks of rumor mongering, the $3 billion-a-year record industry last week was spinning toward what could become its biggest crisis since the payola scandals of the late 1950s. Though industry involvement so far has been limited to relatively minor charges against four former employees of CBS'...
PHILADELPHIA. Maurice Osser, former city commission chairman, was sentenced to six years in prison last December for demanding kickbacks from city printing contracts. This month Sander Field, onetime chairman of the city-planning board, was sentenced to pay a $25,000 fine for violating the state security act by selling...
The man most responsible for indicting both Kerner and Barrett, and shaking the once stubbornly secure Democratic domain, is James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 36. A coolly sagacious but easygoing 6-ft. 6-in. bachelor, he calls himself a "middle-of-the-road" Republican. In the 17 months that he has...