Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challengers had a different theory. They arrived in Australia two weeks late, explaining casually that they had missed a connection in Tahiti. ("It was," sighed Spain's Luis Arilla, "such a beautiful spot.") Then they begged out of two Australian tournaments and didn't even hoist a racket during a "practice session" at Sydney's White City Stadium courts...
...know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know." Even Snoopy knows. He has entered a "home lighting and display contest," which, its advertisement promises, will help him "find the true meaning of Christmas...
...Agents Culp and Cosby do their best to protect the life of an arrogant mobster so he can inform on a Hong Kong racket. Color...
Wednesday, October 13 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* The Chinese mafia is running a poppy-dust racket, and Spies Gulp and Cosby break...
...uncounted number of minor imitations. Most unlikely is Italy's Monica Vitti, an intellectual type seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal Dirk Bogarde...