Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven-member teen-aged Negro gang had pummeled In Ho Oh to death with a blackjack, a lead pipe and hard-toed shoes, while looking for the admission price of a 35? neighborhood dance...
...Manhattan courtroom, an all-male blue-ribbon jury studiously listened to the story of a thoroughly senseless murder. Seven boys, 15 to 19, were on trial for the gang killing of polio-crippled, 15-year-old Michael Farmer in a Washington Heights park in upper Manhattan last summer (TIME, Aug. 12). Developed by the prosecution and no fewer than 27 court-appointed defense lawyers, the story unfolded slowly: the gang, called the Egyptian Dragons, had armed themselves with knives, a machete, a heavy dog chain, sticks, pipes and garrison belts, slipped into the park looking for members of a rival...
Leroy Birch (nickname: Magician), 19, Negro, came from a broken home, lived with grandparents. Acknowledged as "counselor" for the younger boys, he advised the gang on strategy, denied participating in the murder...
After the gang, whose leader had told the six to "get going" from the corner, began to hurl insults and beer bottles at them, five of the group hopped into the station wagon of George B. Cabot, Jr. '61. The sixth man fell prey to the thugs, who "Viciously beat him up," according to one of the Freshmen...
Immediately, the Freshman notified the police, who took the victim to the hospital and the gang to the station for questioning. The thugs, however, were released pending charges...