Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known teen-age gang members in the area, the cops sifted their way down to the suspect 17. Nine of the gang, 15 to 18 years old, were held for murder. The remaining eight, all under 15, were charged with juvenile delinquency. One of these, a 14-year-old boy known to his pals as "The Little King," proudly bragged to detectives that he plunged his knife deep into Farmer's back "to get the feeling of a knife going through bone." As he withdrew his blade, he told the dying boy: "Thanks...
...enforce the law in their burgeoning metropolis, Tokyoites have the services of 22,334 policemen (now equipped with nightsticks and U.S.-made .38-cal. revolvers instead of swords). One of the police force's biggest headaches: a spreading rash of crimes of violence by the spiv and Teddy-boy element of the city's 350,000 students, whose favorite weapons are knives and bicycle chains...
...latest wave of arrests, septuagenarians lead all the rest. The Reds have seized a count who was once the head of Hungary's Boy Scouts and has been an invalid for seven years, as well as Horthy's aged Minister of Industry, and the onetime head of the Hungarian manufacturers' association. Tied to this "Horthy plot" was a group of Roman Catholic priests, also rounded up. Among them was Father Egon Albert Turcsanyi, onetime secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is accused of leading an armed group to steal documents from the State Church Office...
Three men students exceed the Biblical three score and ten, the oldest being 78. The oldest the weaker sex can claim is 66. One sixteen-year-old boy braved the academic rigors, but five boys and 17 girls are only a year older...
...biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self-taught financial expert, whose formal schooling ended after two years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became a vice president four years ago. An important target as president: financing a $650 million expansion program...