Word: gange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plastic surgery left him with a stiff, dour expression that matches his personality. Smiles come hard to the new Governor, even if he were of the mind for them. Ogilvie built his public reputation as a federal prosecutor, gaining wide publicity in 1960 when he prosecuted a Chicago gang boss on income tax fraud. Ogilvie's masklike, bespectacled countenance became a familiar sight on . Chicago television screens, enhancing his image as a tenacious racket buster. As the rare Republican who could win elections in Daley's domain, Ogilvie and the mayor have a longstanding feud. In 1962, Ogilvie...
...reader of the San Francisco Chronicle will tell you that Scott Newhall is not one of your milquetoast editors. There was, for instance, the night last February when a gang of white segregationists roughed up one of the paper's photographers covering a meeting about bussing schoolchildren. Next day, Newhall's anger exploded on the editorial page: "As of this moment we do not know the identity of these preposterous boors, but when we find out, the aging executive editor of this newspaper is going to do his best to kick their teeth right through the back...
Well-known works such as Penrose's are difficult for a gang to sell locally. However, insurance companies, who will have to pay for the stolen paintings, usually offer small "rewards" for information leading to their recovery-and no questions asked. Police can never prove that a deal has been made-but they are no longer surprised by anonymous tips telling them to look for the paintings behind some garage and finding them unharmed. Penrose has told his insurance company he will brook no subrosa ransoms, even though his paintings were insured for only...
...Vice President, Nixon used to refer to the "Truman-Acheson-Stevenson gang," and described all three as "traitors to the high principles" of the Democratic Party. Truman at the same time was widely quoted as calling Nixon "an s.o.b." He denied saying it, however. "I would never call him that," observed the former President. "After all, he claims to be a self-made...
That Yellow Gang. Echoes of the clash reached Eastern Europe last week. In Budapest, at the first full-dress Warsaw Pact meeting since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, a high-powered Soviet delegation led by Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev pressed their allies to sign an already prepared document condemning the Chinese. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu refused, standing his ground in the face of Brezhnev's charges that he was "taking the side of that yellow gang." The meeting's official session, in fact, lasted only two hours, the shortest on record...