Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Eckert Long Beach, Calif...
...only got worse. Even as the White House was preparing the message to Congress, the incidents of violence and stealth that have terrorized so many millions of Americans were continuing across the nation. In one 72-hour period, eleven persons were killed in Atlanta, six by gunfire. In Detroit Beach, Mich., a woman watching her four-year-old grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom...
...three-state empire of some 1,500 Mafiosi who ran gambling, narcotics, prostitution, loan sharking and other underworld ventures. At the height of his power, Giancana lived relatively modestly in Oak Park with his three daughters-his wife died in 1954-but vacationed on a lavish scale: Miami Beach and Europe in the winter, Paradise Valley near Las Vegas in the summer. While visiting Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1960, the don noticed Singer Phyllis McGuire standing at a blackjack table, seemingly bewildered by the game. He gallantly offered some expert advice and began a long romance with...
Such strained fictions have always seemed a lot of fuss to ichthyologists. Why bother to wake the creatures of unimaginably distant geologic ages when you can find, in a condition essentially unchanged for 63 million years, a creature cruising handily off every beach in the world who once shared the planet with dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs and is as strange, unpredictable and dangerous as those bad old boys...
Someone told me that PANIC consisted of one thirtyish black guy who worked in the public library music room, so when I'd waited for half an hour or so and the cops agreed that the demonstrators probably weren't coming--"they must have gone to the beach," one cop said scornfully--I went over to the library to see of I'd got the date wrong, or something...