Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juvenile delinquency, and the one city in the U.S. that has a giant's share of pain is New York. There, in the weltering tenements and public-housing complexes that pimple district upon district of the city's 299 sq. mi., roam the "bopping clubs," the teen-age street-fighting gangs. They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real...
...them are Negro; there are separate Puerto Rican gangs, and thoroughly integrated ones. The members are, in their own language, all "shook up" and cling together for defense against others as well as for the comradeship they can find nowhere else. They range in age from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another's property or girl, even an insult-may bring on councils of war, choice of a battleground, scouting forays. Finally comes the "rumble...
...Addressing the Arizona State Conference of Social Welfare last week, Denver's Juvenile Court Judge Philip B. Gilliam warned that 20 million youngsters will be moving into the delinquency-age field by 1968. Asked Gilliam: "Can you handle this load with your present facilities for welfare, recreation, police and education? . . . We don't understand juvenile delinquency. We've been told there is no such thing as a bad boy. Well, we're wrong. Most juvenile delinquents are meaner than hell...
Mirrored Épée. After the performance, Dancer Lifar tossed his black locks in indignation, declared that he was challenging Cuevas to a duel. "Out of respect for his great age," he would allow the marquis the choice of weapons. The marquis answered. "I wish I could choose the whip, to give him a good drubbing," but decided on the more conventional...
...Rockets (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) is put out for the trade, but its circulation has grown by almost a third (to 27,700) since the first Sputnik, and its ads are up 75% over last year despite the slump. Though aviation magazines are expanding coverage of the space age, they are losing advertisers to the specialized newcomers. McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week was down 112 pages of ads in January from a year...