Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Invisible Codes. Not all the extravaganza making is going on at the stadium. The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has commissioned Sculptor Mike Matoba to produce a life-sized bronze bust of Aaron that will eventually be placed outside the Braves' offices at the stadium. A local advertising company has spent $20,000 to plaster the city with 200 full-color billboards depicting Aaron in full swing, with Babe Ruth's face hovering in the background. The mayor and Governor, of course, are planning to be on hand to honor Aaron, and even the Federal Communications Commission in Washington...
Russell, for example, gets off easy. Cogan tips the narcs, who bust him for deal ing. For Amato and Frankie, Cogan sub contracts a well-known torpedo. When the torpedo proves unreliable, Cogan "does a double" that compares to most literary killings as an IBM 360 compares to chicken tracks...
...valuable connections and their bank accounts, are constantly thwarting them in their appointed rounds. Gould and Blake are good, dogged street cops, and they know where the action is. They just can't get to it. So out of frustration and a certain embarrassment, they have to bust whoever is without influence, people they would probably just as soon leave alone-whores or some gays trying to have a good time in a bar. It is only when they swear vengeance on a porcine vice lord and pusher (Allen Garfield) that things really begin to come down on them...
...complicity in Portuguese colonialism. They demanded that Harvard sell its stock in Gulf Oil, whose payments to Portugal for drilling rights in Angola were an important source of income to Portugal. Hundreds of students marched around Mass Hall for a week to make sure there was no police bust like 1969's and to show their solidarity with the students inside...
...girl in a red equestrian's uniform astride an auburn thoroughbred in a forest. The living roomis furnished in imitation gold-leafed Louis XIV, with mustard velvet upholstery and matching floor length drapes. There are three six-year-old portraits of the Rath children above the fireplace and a bust of Andrew Carnegie on the mantle; the opposite wall is all mirror. National Geographic, Readers' Digest and Businessweek lie on a coffee table along with Mechanics Illustrated and a Bible. There are no ashtrays to be found...