Word: thompson
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...Carolina twice, and then took the Atlantic Coast Conference title in overtime over Maryland, 103-100, in the southern version of Russian roulette, otherwise known as the ACC post season tournament. State's only loss this year was in an uninspired game with the UCLA'ns that featured David Thompson, the best college player in America, playing his worst game of year...
...course, the advertisement doesn't address any of these issues. It's written so slickly it could be selling not an old kind of employment opportunity--killing for hire--but a new brand of toothpaste made by a large corporation like the ones J. Walter Thompson more generally sells its talents to. There's a logic to the slickness. Like the other armed forces, the Marines have been used in recent years primarily for protecting large American capitalists from the threat of democratic government in the rest of the world, from Indochina to the Dominican Republic, where Marines overthrew...
...investigations-and the appointment of Rochford-have political overtones. The 13,800-member police force is closely controlled by Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, whose scandal-ridden machine has run the city since 1955. The prosecutions are being pushed by two politically ambitious Republicans-U.S. Attorney James ("Big Jim") Thompson and Bernard Carey, the state's attorney for Chicago's Cook County...
...Thompson uncovered two highly organized police extortion rings that preyed on the near-North Side liquor trade during the past few years. The cops set up "vice clubs" and "invited" everyone to join who sold liquor-the owners of corner taverns, Gold Coast bistros, swinging singles spots and homosexual hangouts. Dues were $100 to $200 a month, and the benefits of membership were simply the privilege of operating without harassment. Those who refused to join sometimes found cops entering their places and endlessly checking identification of their customers. Uncooperative owners were threatened with loss of their liquor licenses, which...
...extortion rings netted more than half a million dollars for their police operators. Thompson has so far indicted 37 men and won convictions of 23, including the two captains. Meanwhile he is investigating four other districts of Chicago for possible rings...