Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robbery. The near-perfect crime had been committed by eleven Boston hoods, all of them veteran criminals. It had been painstakingly planned for 18 months, carefully rehearsed in several "dry runs" at the scene of the big crime. By the evening of the big heist, each member of the gang was letter-perfect in his role...
...scenario had been carefully prepared by the gang leader, fat Anthony Pino, 48, an alien from Sicily whose criminal record ranges from molesting a young girl to stealing a dozen golf balls, and whose oafish manner covers a keen intelligence. Before he was ready to stage the robbery, Pino carefully picked his cast and cased the North Terminal Garage (the Brink's headquarters) many times, figuring escape routes and systematically noting schedules and shipments of money. He learned exactly where the big money was stored, went over every foot of the establishment after closing hours. Under the noses...
After one final dry run on D-minus-one, the gang was ready. "During the early evening of Jan. 17, 1950," said the FBI's announcement, "members of the gang met in the Roxbury section of Boston and entered the rear of a Ford stake-body truck, which had been stolen in Boston in November 1949 to be used in the robbery. Including the driver, this truck carried nine members of the gang to the scene. During the trip, seven of the men donned...
...Haven. Stockholders' Darling. Although a good many of the complaints proved on investigation to be justified (in 1955, for example, the New Haven curtailed maintenance by some $3,000,000), the main trouble seemed to be Pat McGinnis himself. He is the son of a railroad gang foreman, and, before he took over the New Haven 20 months ago in a proxy coup (TIME, April 26, 1954), he had a reputation for fiscal wizardry. As head of the New Haven, he continued to keep the stockholders happy (estimated 1955 profits: $10.5 million). He worked hard at his job, spent...
...wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament. But the bluntest verdict came from a bookseller whose only program was a refusal to pay taxes, and whose only remedy was to get rid of the old gang. "Throw the rascals out!" cried Pierre Poujade-and 2,400,000 Frenchmen gave him their vote in what Poujade himself called "an explosion of despair...