Word: gange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might some day provide the answer to the nagging jungle war in South Viet Nam. In THE WORLD we tell not only about the new Prime Minister of India but about the "king" of Sankt Pauli, the notorious center of Hamburg's gaudy night life, and his "Black Gang...
...with them. But if someone wants to fight with you, move away." But Nick didn't dare move. He sat paralyzed with fear. Only when the train slowed for his stop at Kings Highway station did he get up. And then, before the car doors opened, the gang began beating him, knocking off and splintering his glasses. They finally left him on the station platform with his wallet, containing $97, missing, his trousers nearly ripped off, his shirt covered with blood, his face a pulpy, puffy mass of blood and bruises...
...station, the gang raged on, beat up another man, slugged 16-year-old Howard Weiner unconscious with a bottle, then pummeled him unmerci fully. Suddenly a young Negro bystander shouted, "The police are coming!" The boy who shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled...
...Black Gang. What a tourist can do most easily, though, is get clipped. Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...
Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...