Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...
...Singapore (pop. 1,500,000), with a degree of organization that makes Manhattan's West Side gangdom seem puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers...
Last week Singapore's Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, whose usual concern is fighting the Communist penetration of Singapore's overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...