Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S.'s most unwanted gift to Italy, onetime Manhattan Vice Czar Lucky Luciano, 57, whose 9½-year sojourn in New York pens crowned his career as a top merchandiser of dope and prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples...
Inside J-43, the cops found bodies of seven non-residents crammed under beds and behind doors. The eighth apparently knocked out the screen, and escaped to Leverett's roof. Questioning produced only that the group had heard "there was a party" in the House. With the eighth still on...
Midnight-riding cops shot and killed two men, described in communiqués as "Communist elements." The press, which has generally approved of Castillo Armas, was dismayed. El Impartial feared the re-establishment of the "abominable climate of fear and distrust" of Ubico's times.
The cops dusted off a law that dates to the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico (1931-44), and makes "speaking ill of the President" punishable by prison terms of six months to three years. One of the first arrested turned out to be a pro-government editor whose words were misunderstood...
Changeover. Last week's TV drama indicated that the happiness boys were leading their more morose brethren by a score of about ten to one. Television Playhouse seemed to be making the changeover gradually: its Merry-Go-Round was about a grimly possessive girl who loses two men before...