Word: gange
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demolition Gang...
...Milton J. Hammergren, retired general sales manager of the Wurlitzer Co., testified that he had used underworld contacts in such cities as New York and Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials denied all, and Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who held the Wurlitzer sales-manager job before Hammergren, called the testimony "dirty pool" on Democrat Kennedy's part...
...This gang may be the same one responsible for other similar thefts...
...their sons neglect their studies, spend their time with prostitutes and sneer at middle-class comforts. Up to that point, the youngsters described by young (28) Spanish Author Goytisolo have got their kicks from booze, sex and seedy night life. But when Ana, the lone girl in the gang and the only one with a working-class background, suggests the murder of a wealthy politician, they seize on the idea as a chance to prove to each other what they are made...
...dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David cannot pull the trigger as he faces the easy victim.* The gang splits. Before novel's end, a murder does take place, one almost as pointless as the planned killing would have been...