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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime was "so weird and bizarre," declared Los Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi, that he had taken an unusual step. He was showing photographs of the bodies of Starlet Sharon Tate and the four other murder victims to a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Perhaps the killer had left some clue to his character in his sick and savage assault on the bodies of his victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Night of Horror | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Today people do care. Organized crime is suddenly a high-priority item in Congress. The Nixon Administration and several key states are striving to improve law-enforcement efforts. The Justice Department is sending special anti-Mob "strike forces" into major cities, more money is being spent by police forces, and more men are being thrown into the battle. Hollywood makes movies about it (The Brotherhood), and readers have put it on the top of the bestseller list (Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...more thorough investigation, the Los Angeles police decided that the similarities were largely superficial-and perhaps intentional-and that the crimes were probably unconnected except by the publicity given the first one. There were, for example, no sexual overtones to the LaBianca deaths. The lethal weapons, including a meat-carving fork, were left in the LaBianca house. None were found at the scene of the first crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Night of Horror | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

There are bits of truth in all the impressions, but all fall short. The biggest and most important truth is that La Cosa Nostra and the many satellite elements that constitute organized crime are big and powerful enough to affect the quality of American life. LCN generates corruption on a frightening scale. It touches small firms as well as large, reaches into city halls and statehouses, taints facets of show business and labor relations, and periodically sheds blood. It has a multiplier effect on crime; narcotics, a mob monopoly, drives the addicted to burglaries and other felonies to finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Cosa Nostra itself, the Italian core of organized crime, consists of only 3,000 to 5,000 individuals scattered around the nation in 24 "families," or regional gangs, each headed by a boss and organized loosely along military lines. There is no national dictator or omnipotent unit giving precise direction on all operations. Rather, the families constitute a relatively loose confederation under a board of directors

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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