Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mass. The laughter he suppressed, but there was nothing much he could do about sodomy, since his brother, the Due d'Orleans, and his best general, old Vendóme, were notorious sodomites. The black arts were another thing Louis frowned on. Witchcraft, magic, and a Parisian underworld of pimps and professional poisoners had been involved in a plot to eclipse the Sun King...
T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Robert Loggia plays a character named Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat in the tale of a cat burglar turned crime fighter. In the premiere, he acts as a bodyguard for a fearless priest threatened by the underworld...
AMERICAN WHITE PAPER-ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES (NBC, 7:30-11 p.m.).* Frank McGee will conduct the underworld tour, taking a look at the Prohibition raids of the '20s and continuing on through Murder Inc. of the '40s to the present day. Spliced in among the film clips in this 3½ -hour marathon will be interviews with local, state and federal officials and legislators, most notably Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Senators John McClellan, Edward Long and Robert Kennedy...
Burden of Proof. There would still be multitudinous exceptions, notably bona fide security secrets, Government-employee records, geophysical data that could be used for commercial advantage, and FBI investigative manuals, which would be of compelling interest to the underworld. Moreover, the new law would support the tradition of "executive privilege," by which the President has the final right to withhold any information. Nor does it apply to Congress, itself one of Washington's most notorious practitioners of secrecy...
...homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...