Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intelligence experts believe that most of the kidnaping is the work of Castro-Communist terrorists, who see it as a way to spread chaos and buy arms for their Army of Liberation, the guerrilla outfit that invaded the village of Simacota last January. There is certainly money in the racket. In the past year, more than $1,000,000 in ransom was collected in the 130 kidnaping cases reported to police. Much more was probably squeezed from victims too terrified to tell...
Added Paris-Jour: "The stupid Frenchman who says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
...York, 500 in Chicago, 350 in Los Angeles, 230 in Detroit, 220 in Washington, 150 in both St. Louis and San Francisco, 100 in Kansas City, under 100 in each of 70 other cities, including Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and Jacksonville. Still, it is a nice racket for Elijah, son of a Georgia sharecropper. He socks each member for $8.30 in dues a week, requires each to sell (or pay for) as many as 200 copies of the 200 Muslim newspaper every two weeks, saddles everybody with an additional $125 assessment for Savior...
...Sterne bounced back to capture the College Freshman Tournament at the Racket-Tennis Club of New York, December 28-30, with 2-0 scores in all matches. Toammate Gonzalez did not enter the tournament...
...bottom four men have lost just two matches among them, one when Brooks broke a string in his racket against Army...