Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blue Suede. Shob Carter's murder was apparently solved when a police officer spotted the victim's battered black Volkswagen, bearing stolen license plates, 35 miles north of San Francisco. In the car were $2,657 in cash evidently stolen from the prosperous peddler, and the driver, a daredevil motorcycle racer named Eric Dahlstrom, 23. Beside him on the seat was a grisly piece of evidence: Carter's right forearm, neatly sutured at the severed end and wrapped in a blue suede...
...Mafia. While police doubt any connection between the murders of Car ter and Superspade Thomas, many hippies believe that Thomas was killed by Mafia mobsters who wanted to eliminate competition. Thomas had a highly successful drug dealership, was on his way to make a $40,000 pickup when he disappeared. Hippies also think that the syndicate is tipping the narcotics squad on small pushers in order to drive them out of the psychedelic market. However, Matthew O'Connor, head of the state's narcotics enforcement squad in San Francisco, says flatly: "Neither the Mafia nor any other syndicate...
Chicago's "Jobs Now," as one of its founders explains, concentrates on "the kids who can strip a car in ten minutes but can't pass a mechanical-aptitude test." Half a dozen churches with predominantly Negro congregations have rehabilitated apartments in communities from Cleveland to Kiloch, Wis. In the Hough slum, former Cleveland Browns Football Star Jim Brown and Team mate John Woolen formed the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to help Negroes start their own businesses with the help of no-interest loans...
...about this time, Archerd's brother Everett died at his job, and Archerd and his mother were entrusted with $5,000 for Everett's son, Burney, 15. In August 1961, Burney was taken to the hospital, where he reported that he had been hit by a car, though an investigation showed no such accident had taken place. Burney nonetheless remained in the hospital, where he was visited by his kindly Uncle William. He died soon thereafter. Symptoms: those of insulin poisoning. Archerd's mother, co-trustee of the $5,000, herself died three weeks later of causes...
DiSeglio, one of the 40-plus men murdered in gangland-style in Greater Boston since March, 1964, was a 26-year old former boxer when killed. He was shot five times in the head and his body left in a sports car in Topsfield. Police believe that DiSeglio, allegedly a minor underworld figure, was murdered in East Boston and his body transported to the rural North Shore town...