Word: racketeer
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...John F. Kennedy Jr., 13, was mugged. A strapping youth, aged about 18, stepped into the boys' path, brandished a stick at John and said, "Get the hell off the bike." When John did not respond quickly enough, the thief knocked him to the ground, grabbed his tennis racket and sped off on his $145 ten-speed Bianchi racer. Secret Service men, who are charged with John's protection until his 16th birthday, were red-faced. Apparently John had passed up a ride in the Secret Service car, jumped on his bicycle and headed off on a path...
...jury had convicted him of protecting a confidence racket from prosecution because members of his office had invested in the scheme. It was the first time a New York City district attorney had ever been indicted, much less convicted. Mackell's sudden fall underscored two apparently conflicting trends. Corruption in law-enforcement agencies seems more prevalent than ever, while efforts to curb venality are at an alltime high. Items...
...Kissinger found a honeymoon refuge last week. Lazing by the shell-shaped pool or strolling in the tropical gardens of the estate lent to them by Mexican Pharmaceuticals Importer Eustaquio Escandon, the Kissingers' only argument was with their host's mean, green parrot that set up a racket every time Henry opened his mouth. Kissinger was resigned to the bird's preference for his bride. "That parrot can't be all bad," he said. Henry was not so tolerant of the 40-odd newsmen who were encamped at La Serena's gate. Flushed from adjoining...
...Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being so buck-toothed that she can eat an apple through a tennis racket. But often Coward's celebrated champagne wit amounts to no more than, say, Asti Spumante-or even a frothy ginger...
Once a lad from Exeter ventured to ask me, Where did Handball originate? Why, I said, the most neolithic of our ancestors could hardly have resisted the impulse to bounce the nearest spheroid off the nearest rock face. If you had given him a racket, he would have burned...