Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More disciplined communes had better luck. Houriet describes the evolution of New Buffalo, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico, which painfully expelled the hordes of parasitic potheads who had drifted in to live off the efforts of a hard-working minority. A different proposition is Harrad West,* a six-member group-marriage web in Berkeley, Calif. Houriet, who notes regretfully that he missed its "honeymoon" phase, found unsettling resemblances to an erotic soap opera. One feature was "the Chart," which ordained who was to sleep with whom on any particular night. "There's really no other...
...Perhaps more indicative of Agnew's attitude was his admiration of the large animals he saw in Africa. "That rhinoceros," he noted. "Nobody fools around with him." Then, spotting a water buffalo, he commented: "There's a mean buffalo. No one tries to move him around." Agnew, after 21 years in office, is still bent on proving that, like the animals he admires, he will not be pushed around...
...uniform, all of them white, their faces hard-set, lined up as suspects while four blacks passed from one to the next trying to make identifications. The tension was tangible. "You stink," hissed one cop as one of the Negroes, a woman, peered closely at him. The scene in Buffalo was repeated four times during the past two weeks till 278 cops had appeared before the black quartet. They were the first all-police lineups in memory...
...That may well undermine the other identifications, which are to be used only in departmental disciplinary proceedings. No cop is likely to come to trial because such a broad-gauge use of the lineup may violate constitutional rights of the men as individuals. Antagonism between blacks and police in Buffalo has long been exceptionally severe. After the lineups in blue, police tempers are on a hair trigger. And if little or no discipline is meted out to the cops, black tempers will be no less volatile...
...factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese of New York City, and Slefano Magaddino of Buffalo. Who should be picked for the job but enterprising...