Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dichotomies abound in Vincent Edward Jackson, 23, nicknamed Bo for the resemblance he once bore to a boar. As a boy, Jackson was a bully with a gentle streak. At Auburn, he seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything...
John Gotti is haunted by the deception of Wilfred ("Willie Boy") Johnson, a Gambino-family associate. Caught carrying $50,000 in a paper bag in 1981, Johnson invited New York City detectives to help themselves to the cash. They charged him with bribery. After that Johnson, who hung out at Gotti's Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, kept the cops posted on how the rising star was progressing. He also suggested where bugs might be placed...
...sneakers and wheeling a small baby in a stroller recalls part of Gotti's past: "He lost a son. You want to know something? I hope he gets away with it. I pray for him." In 1979 a neighbor accidentally killed Gotti's twelve-year-old son when the boy rode a motorbike in front of his car. Gotti was distraught; his wife seemed broken. A few months after the boy's death, the neighbor disappeared. Police suspect that he was stuffed into a car as it was about to be compacted...
...visit, and Rita said, "Dorothy, I want to show you something." They drove out of town about two miles and parked on the shoulder of the road by the Fostoria Country Club. Rita pointed to the tank across the highway, and Dorothy "saw it immediately. So I said, 'Oh boy, two kooks...
...look just below that power line. See the dark spot? That's Jesus' head. You can't make out the face. Now see his gown? Good. Now just down on the left is the little boy...