Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized crime secured its first firm beachhead in New Jersey during Prohibition days, when Abner ("Longie") Zwillman used the state as the base for 40% of the nation's bootlegging operations. Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931. New Jersey suited the underworld's needs perfectly. The Hudson River separated its members from the tough law enforcement of New York racketbusters like Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Dewey and, more recently, Frank Hogan. Neither police forces nor local government had caught...
NORMAN MAILER: THE COUNTDOWN by Donald L. Kaufmann. 190 pages. Southern Illinois University. $4.95; THE STRUCTURED VISION OF NORMAN MAILER by Barry H. Leeds. 270 pages. New York University. $6.95. Two assistant professors of English establish tenuous positions on the perpetual beachhead that is the imagination of Norman Mailer. Leeds waits anxiously for the Big Novel. Kaufmann, by contrast, wonders whether Mailer's methods will-or even should -catch up with his protean intellect...
...shops selling electric appliances, antiques and furs. But by last week, the space had been remodeled, with huge plate-glass windows, an aluminum tunnel entrance and, inside, distinctive orange carpeting that climbed right up the walls. It had become Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche, his boutique beachhead in the U.S. And in the fashion world, Yves's name is magic. Along the police barricades, students from nearby fashion schools and aspiring models draped themselves, many in versions of the CityPants that Saint Laurent has declared the Now look...
...Division units and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were brought up. Major General William E. DePuy, commander of the 1st Division, took charge of Attleboro and set up an operational headquarters at Dau Tieng. The once-sleepy village bordering a large rubber plantation soon resembled a World War II beachhead as lumbering C-1235 transports and darting helicopters brought in hundreds of tons of supplies from 175-mm. artillery shells to plastic bottles of mosquito repellent. DePuy soon concluded that Attleboro had caught the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese massing for an attack on the Special Forces camp of Suoi...
...cast is to be billed alphabetically and refereed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Explaining his first Broadway directing job since he left for the Minnesota Theater Company in 1960, Guthrie says: "No one is averse to making money.") Meanwhile, the itinerant Association of Producing Artists, which established its Broadway beachhead last fall with a successful revival of You Can't Take It With You, will be around for the whole season. The APA company, adorned by Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb and Rosemary Harris, will range from Shakespeare and Sheridan to Ibsen and Pirandello...