Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years, Ismael Franconville, 71, lived as a widower. Having been married for 37 years, the Normandy barber kept looking for a second wife, and in 1970 he found her. But after only three months, Denise Franconville, also in her 70s, decided that her spouse was far too amorous for her tastes. In a rare decree, a Dieppe court accorded Denise a divorce on the grounds of her husband's "excessive virility...
...informer added in the late Sixties: "Racial Informant (Ghetto)." The "Racial Informant" was hired to infiltrate specific black militant organizations. The "Racial Informant--Ghetto" is a resident of a black or brown ghetto who comes into contact with a large number of the residents every day: e.g., a bartender, barber, newsstand owner, etc. This informer is paid to keep an ear open for rumblings of impending riots or demonstrations, without actively attempting to penetrate a group...
...anguish, the focus of events beyond understanding and beyond control. Now police, reporters from large cities and assorted strangers poked around and asked questions, spreading rumors, raising new fears before the old ones had subsided. "We've been told to expect more trouble," explained Warren Peck, the local barber. "We don't want reprisals taken here," said a man near by. "But if they come in from Buffalo and start trouble, I think they'll find there's a very bitter atmosphere that could explode into violence...
...they surveyed the state of the U.S. economy last week, Americans felt bewilderment, frustration and occasionally a touch of fatalism. Mike Lynn, a Detroit barber, put it bluntly: "I don't think about the economy. There's nothing any of us can do to change things." Occasionally the Administration seemed to take the same line -or argued that enough had already been done and that things would change gradually for the better. Only lately have Nixon and his economic advisers become somewhat more receptive to calls for stronger action (see BUSINESS). The latest figures last week showed that...
...Albert Anastasia, affectionately known as "The Mad Hatter." Genovese approached Carlo Gambino, then only an ambitious Anastasia lieutenant, and convinced him that they would both be better off with Anastasia dead. Gambino quickly got the point. On Oct. 25, 1957, just as Anastasia had settled back comfortably in a barber chair in Manhattan's Park-Sheraton Hotel, his bodyguard conveniently excused himself. Two men walked in quickly, drew pistols and turned Anastasia and the shop into a blood-spattered nightmare. It was the last murder of a major Cosa Nostra leader...