Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department intends to repeat its ploy of bringing top hoods before grand juries and promising them immunity if they testify. If any feel tempted to sing, they have only to remember the late unlamented Manny Skar, a lippy mobster who was unwise enough to threaten to talk to federal authorities if the boys refused to treat him right. They promptly treated him right. Manny was getting out of his car in the basement of his North Side apartment in September when he was shot dead by a couple of the boys...
...framed and titled, with prices on request. But no longer do the panes of varnish give onto idyllic visions of pinky Titian nudes, fluffy Millet sheep, plush Poussin valleys. Nowadays, avant-garde gallerygoing is more like the full 100 yards, with the visitors swivel-hipping through art works that threaten to tackle the visitor's body as well as his sensibilities (see color pages...
...such proposals appear to threaten the federal system of government, they do not. For in the field of Southern justice, the federal system has long since broken down...
...advantages the United States might derive are primarily diplomatic ones, Huntington said. We might exploit the split by pressuring the more moderate Soviet Union, but this approach has its limits because the U.S. cannot negotiate with China. If the USSR ignores U.S. demands, "we cannot very well threaten to make a deal with the Chinese," Huntington said...
...Viet Nam fighting, when necessary, to invoke restraint. If anyone did not get the message the first time, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler repeated it in a tough Chicago speech. The Government is determined, he said, to "blow the whistle impartially on labor and business" for any moves "that threaten economic stability and expansion." Businessmen began to speculate what industry would next suffer the leverage of the Government's stockpile, which includes 77 items ranging from asbestos to sperm oil. Said General Motors President James Roche, answering a reporter's question: "We're very happy that the Government...