Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite, southwest of Manila, where pro-Magsaysay policemen shot up a small band of gun-toting Quirino supporters...
Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation's alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here; Siboney); in White Plains...
Body in a Sack. Only half a block away from swank Delamere Avenue, police caught one Mau Mau gang initiating new members (by forcing them to drink blood, and eat a sheep's entrails). Last week Banasio Kahangara, son of the Paramount Chief of Lari who was murdered this spring (TIME, April 6), was found in a sack on Main Street, strangled...
Members of Sugrue's gang make up the posts in University shops. They are made of fir four-by-fours with a one-by-six cross-piece, and are painted with "outside white" house paint. Building a set of posts for both ends of the field takes a single man about a day. It takes a crew of four to raise them...
There are reasons for this mania to escape from an institution which is the pride and joy of other U.S. cities and towns. While school-age hoodlums are the small minority of students in New York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures...