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...gangs make most of their money in the protection rackets, collecting "contributions" or "taxes" from merchants and shopkeepers, and hiring themselves out as strongarm debt collectors. Last month, armed with grenades, they invaded a suburban police station and forced police to release a group of "protected" prostitutes. Other veterans are less sophisticated. Some simply go into restaurants, enjoy an expensive meal and then refuse to pay; sometimes they even ask the proprietor for a loan. Others build shacks on other people's property and demand a fee to tear them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Rage of the Wounded | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Radcliffe has a corps of several outstanding performers. Kathy Fletcher, Eleanor Hobbs, and Laurie Oliver swim on the two best relay teams, as well as compete in individual events. Dottie Horns and Julie Anderson have also proved to be strongarm competitors in a number of events...

Author: By Dickie Lee, | Title: Victories by Mermaids and Skiers Reveal Radcliffe Athletic Prowess | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully snide and easy-going in the roles of Skinny, Worm, and Babson, Shlink's strongarm...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: In the Jungle of Cities | 3/25/1964 | See Source »

...vast majority of parents applaud the school's effort in this respect. Teachers genuinely enjoy teaching mathematics using the modern approach, thereby increasing their own and their pupils' mathematics literacy and making unnecessary the use of "strongarm" rote methods of teaching and learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1964 | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu of South Vietnam carries her private campaign for United States support into Cambridge today. The sister-in-law of strongarm President Diem will arrive at Logar airport sometime after 4 p.m. and will speak tonight at the Law school Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madame Nhu To Speak At 'Cliffe, Forum | 10/14/1963 | See Source »

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