Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Havens was cleaning up, Captain Jeff Weigand played Amherst student George McGovern. It wasn't enough that Amherst provided the South Dakotan Senator with Tom Eagleton the only vice-presidential candidate forced off a ticket in history, now they torture him by giving his namesake a squash racket and watching him embarrass himself in public...
Captain Lissa Muscatine and Denise Thal captured top laurels in the coubles competition. Brenda Schafer, a junior from Brandeis, repeated last year's performance at this tournament by winning the first place singles trophy. In the semifinals Radcliffe's Rita Funaro fell to Schafer's racket, 6-3, 6-0. Racking up the same score in the finals Schafer whipped the new addition to the Crimson squad, freshman Sally Roberts...
...life," said British Rock Star Elton John, after fighting his way through a crowd of glitter groupies and onto the tennis courts at Forest Hills, N.Y. Armed with a sparkling forehand and pink, star-shaped sunglasses, Elton had joined Ted and Ethel Kennedy, plus some 40 celebrity racket wielders for the fourth annual Robert F. Kennedy charity tournament. While Jackie Onassis and Daughter Caroline watched, along with 13,000 other spectators, Tennis Pro Tony Roche collected first prize (a $12,000 BMW car) in the doubles competition with help from his partner, Comedian Alan King. "That...
Diverted Funds. In a racket-infested, violent industry, maverick Overdrive (circ. 56,000) speaks with high-tonnage authority. The chief author of the exposes is Jim Drinkhall, 35, the magazine's top investigative reporter, who specializes in the Teamsters' infamous and huge Central States $1.5 to $2 billion pension fund. Drinkhall roused a federal investigation in 1973 with articles showing that a $1.4 million Teamsters pension-fund loan, ostensibly given to a plastics company in New Mexico, was really used primarily to finance the Chicago syndicate's purchase of wiretapping equipment. He also revealed that the Tonight...
...NUMBERS RACKET. To encourage greater use of mass transit, several writers proposed a rolling numbers game: every time they take a bus or subway, riders would be given a lottery ticket that would make them eligible to win cash prizes in weekly drawings...