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...vestige of conscience. In New York City, members of a gang sat on either side of a man on the subway, stuck him with knives from both sides, robbed him and kept him propped up until they disembarked. To finish off rival mobs, gangs have invaded hospitals in The Bronx, and once were repelled from an operating room by a surgeon wielding a scalpel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cripplers In The War Zone | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...blue suit, took the elevator to the basement of the Cannon Building and mounted his ten-year-old, three-speed Sears bike. He pumped out on New Jersey Avenue, rounded the corner to Independence Avenue. Beautiful day, he mused to himself. "Hi fellows!" he yelled to The Bronx's Mario Biaggi and fellow Oklahoman Tom Steed. They stared, then laughed and waved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Better than a Rolls Any Day | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...relatively lenient. Until this year, when the Rumanians began demanding at least two years of preparatory college. Americans were accepted directly out of secondary school. It was this lure that attracted Raoul Mendelovice at age 17-immediately after his graduation from New York City's highly regarded Bronx High School of Science with an impressive 97% average. Now in his second year of the six-year Rumanian medical program, Mendelovice notes that he will be finishing up just when his friends back in the U.S. are beginning to apply for admission to medical schools. "By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Rumanian Solution | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Brown's mind was beginning to function along such rigorously analytical lines when he was barely into his teens. The shy and bookish son of a New York City lawyer and grandson of Jewish immigrants from Central Europe, Brown graduated at 15 from the Bronx High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NO LONGER A KID BUT STILL A WHIZ | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...ordered deported to Italy in 1967 and has used ten years of legal maneuvers to keep from returning to his homeland. Last week he was charged with extortion and strong-arm tactics in an attempt to take over most of the private trash-collection business in The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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