Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To the Black Liberation plotters, things seemed to be going swimmingly. Little did they know that in their midst was an undercover agent: big Ray Wood, not a pro-Castro kook at all but a New York rookie cop. Last summer he was taken from his classes at the police...
Powell's problem is this: on March 6, 1960, he appeared on television to indulge in one of his routine denunciations of cops in Harlem, most of whom he claims are on the take from gamblers, narcotics and flesh peddlers; in the course of his diatribe, he named a...
Whereupon, in "this holy place, this well of this great body," he delivered himself of one of his most demagogic speeches. Harlem's cops, he cried, are "the dregs of the police force." The U.S. press is unfair, he added, and particularly the New York Times, "the unfriendliest newspaper...
Powell claimed that he was a victim of New York's "lily-white bench and underworld-controlled judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers...
> Tooling toward Rome, a truck driver from the town of Poggibonsi suddenly realizes he has forgotten his driver's license. Che male fortuna, it's in his pants pocket at home. So he whirls the truck around and heads back. When he rings the doorbell, his wife leans...