Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policemen, including a brigadier police chief, have been arrested, and "we are in the presence of a complete counterterrorist organization, to which dozens of outrages can be attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
Point of Honor. In Troy, Ohio, cooperative Convict John Weaver, 33, readily admitted being a member of a gang that had pulled twelve burglaries and three arson jobs, explained soberly: "I've been treated so right I want to tell what I know...
...slivovitz had hardly stopped flowing at Khrushchev's Belgrade party last week when the Kremlin gang (including the returning celebrants) set out to win India's teetotalling Nehru. This time the technique was birds and flowers, and the scene was the more easily stage-managed environs of Moscow. What did the Kremlin gang want from Nehru, who as a neutralist is convinced that his world stature depends on refusing to become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue...
Died. Robert Elliot Burns, 63, author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang; after long illness; in East Orange, N.J. Burns robbed an Atlanta grocery of $5.85 in 1921, was sentenced to six-to-ten years on the chain gang, escaped and fled to Chicago, where he married and became the $20,000-a-year editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine. Recaptured in 1929, he served another year, escaped again and wrote his colorful account of abuses in the prison camps. His civil rights were restored by the state parole board in Atlanta...
Died. Louis ("Little New York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to Chicago as his bodyguard, later, after Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion, shared control of his vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving...