Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mafia was virtually immune from theft or attack. In those days the murder of a Mafia member like Nino meant only one thing-he had betrayed the organization. Lately, however, the once unquestioned authority of the Mafia has been challenged by a rival syndicate that calls itself Anonima Delitte-Crime Incorporated. In the past two years Crime Inc. has murdered 22 Mafia men. Result: a sharp drop in public faith in the effectiveness of Mafia protection and an increasing number of clients for Crime Inc.'s protection service...
Like any threatened monopoly, the Mafia has fought back. Last June two Crime Incers who had apparently defied Nino Cottone's rule of the fruit market were rubbed out in the heart of Crime Inc. territory, a Palermo suburb called Torrelunga. And when Nino was killed most of Palermo expected that the next move would be a revenge murder by the Mafia...
...brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
Gomulka's real crime had been his demand that the U.S.S.R. respect Polish sovereignty and let the Poles find their own "road to Socialism," but the Bezpieka, Poland's security police, did its best to persuade Gomulka to confess to a formal charge of "lack of vigilance with regard to enemy agents." Instead of confessing, bullheaded Wladyslaw Gomulka counterattacked his interrogators with such vigor and skill that in the end the party had to abandon its plans to use him as the pièce de résistance in a show trial of Polish Titoists...
...backed them up in their demand that, since they cover headquarters 2 hours a day, they are entitled to get police news first. Kennedy went through with his telecast, but waited until he was off the air to give newsmen the figures that made headlines the next morning (JUVENILE CRIME...