Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring are still not known, 15 members have been arrested over the past year, and eight of them, including Fellebaum, have pleaded guilty. The ring's victims -many of them prominent in entertainment, business, education and Government-have numbered perhaps 1,000, and their total payoff is estimated...
...Chickens" & "Shakemen." The ring's chief method of operation was as simple as it was effective. A decoy-the part played by Fellebaum, 27, an ex-weight lifter-would pick up a victim, usually in a bar, take him to a hotel room and engage in a homosexual act. The decoy, called a "chicken," would then steal or take by force the victim's credit cards and identification, and give them to the ring's "shakemen." Days, weeks, or even months later, the shakemen, posing as police officers, would visit the victim. They would tell him that...
Died. Robert H. Friedrich, 76, professional wrestler, known as "Strangler Lewis," a Wisconsin farm boy who started throwing his beef around the ring at the age of 14 when he weighed 200 lbs., grew into a 270-lb. behemoth and, with fearsome mien and paralyzing headlock, crunched foe after foe in the days before the "sport" abandoned all pretense of honesty, losing but 33 of his 6,200 matches in a 44-year career-which made him one of the highest paid athletes, with earnings of more than $4,000,000; of complications following a stroke; in Muskogee, Okla...
Miguelin, as any aficionado knows, is a gimmicky bullfighter. His moves in the ring all attempt to place the bull in a situation where Miguelin can execute one of his two favorite tricks, that of patting the bull on the head and that of executing passes at close range while seated on the ring barrier. This kind of stereotyped strategy may please a sensation-seeking crowd, but it is not the art that bullfighting can be. The old-style matador, by contrast, constantly innovated to suit the particular bull he was fighting...
Rosi, in other words, is attacking the Horatio Alger type of matador like Miguelin. Such a matador enters the ring for the first time late in adolescence and proceeds to tailor his style to the crowd. He has not grown up on a bull farm and he has little knowledge of the animal he must fight. Thus when the first wound comes, there is only the threat of the poorhouse to sustain him in the ordeal of his comeback...