Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A report on the narcotics racket, with exclusive films of the bosses and street pushers...
...sedan drivers, and the 18 Formula Vees had to give the sedans a one-minute head start. The speeds were low-"Sometimes I can get up to about 70 m.p.h.," confided one racer, "if the wind isn't too bad"-and so were the risks. But the racket was realistic: "Why it sounds just like a race," mused a spectator...
Pryar himself, fashionably enough, is a nonhero. A man-about-town who knows writers rather than writing, and women only socially ("He never much liked their shape"), Pryar has sidled into the academic racket as the world's only authority on the world's worst poet, a gruesome Australian mother of seven named Dorothy Merlin. How can he be released from servitude to this distant termagant and become director of the Institute of Visiting Fellows? This is the question the plot turns on, and it looks like a Snow family specialty -academic power politics. However, all the characters...
...Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next, little Miss Moffit was the darling of Wimbledon last week...
...plays tennis with an astounding lack of grace. He leaps, he lunges, he scrambles, he slides, he falls, he dives, he skins his elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands during a 1960 Davis Cup match in Australia. In 1961 McKinley fought his way into...