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...years (1927-53), burly Joseph Patrick Ryan ruled the New York waterfront as boss of the International Longshoremen's Association. With the connivance of wharf racketeers, Ryan cowed shipowners and decent dockworkers alike, and defied the forces of law. Last week in a Manhattan court Joe Ryan finally got his comeuppance, on the charge that he had accepted $2,500 in gratuities from a trucking company. "The defendant was not a union leader," said Prosecutor Arnold Bauman. "He was a racketeer. The I.L.A. was a racket, which perpetuated itself by a reign of terror, by brutal beatings, in some...
...very critical" need is a device to cut the racket of turbojet and jet engines, a growing Air Force public-relations headache (TIME...
Entrenched in the town halls of a third of Italy's municipalities, many Red mayors have long engaged themselves in a lucrative tax racket. Sometimes they call in private firms to collect local levies (a frequent practice in Italy), but add a twist of their own: the party kickback. On the books, the collectors got an exorbitant 30% commission; they actually kept a generous 18% to 20%, and handed over the rest to swell the coffers of the West's biggest, richest, strongest Communist Party. Typical annual payoffs for the Reds: 17 million lire ($27,200) in Modena...
...enough to make the shots. Squash is a game played on a walled, rectangular court (18½ ft. by 32 ft. in the U.S. game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is a hard-rubber affair, somewhat larger than a golf ball; the handle of the racket is longer than that of a tennis racket, but the head is smaller. A crack squash player needs stamina and strong wrists; he must be puma-quick on his feet, and know all the angles by experience...
...Association. Since he began playing in big tournaments ten years ago, Hashim Khan has been beaten only once-in the first U.S. open a year ago. Hashim, who had learned the British game in Peshawar, had never played it U.S.-style (narrower and longer court, livelier ball, slightly heavier racket), and he had only two weeks of practice to get used to it. Nevertheless, Hashim won all his matches except the final, which he lost to Henri Salaun, a Boston salesman, by only one point (15-14 in the deciding game...