Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They're easy to spot the first day. The boys wear pistol pants and a lot of them have colored jackets with their gang names on the back. The girls, in Brooklyn anyhow, wear a sort of uniform, too-heavy makeup, long black hair (they dye it if it isn't dark), long, dangling earrings and low shoes that tie halfway up to the knee. But you'd know anyhow-they sit watching you like snakes, waiting for the first sign of weakness. It's frightening when you know that some of the boys carry switchblade...
...want to join the gang bent on smearing Miguel Aleman, go ahead. That's what a free press is for, isn't it? But how do you know about those gaieties of Aleman and his pals? Did you have sleuths sneak in on them, or are you satisfied with broadcasting dirty gossip ? Why get so incensed because Aleman is good-looking...
Barely a week later, Italian finance police picked up a California-born Italian citizen named Walter Rava in a small cafe in Milan. He was arrested for forging an Italian government import certificate for 5,000 tons of Chilean copper. Rava was part of a gang, headed by the Rumanian commercial attache in Bern, Switzerland, which specialized in getting control of strategic materials sent to Europe, supposedly destined for Western European businessmen. Once the goods arrived, they were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain...
...solve another in the series of murders, the killing of a grocer and three children in a $7,000 payroll robbery. Hearst men got the four-year-old daughter of the grocer, the only survivor, to identify the killer as one of the Santo gang. Then the Chronicle went to work and proved the identification a fake. The Hearstlings had shown the girl the picture with the lower half of his face covered, and under such circumstances the girl's mother said her daughter would call anyone "the bad man who did it." It was clearly Reporter Bernice Freeman...
...they are driven off the golf courses of the nation and into show business. In transit, Jerry does a memorable song & dance routine, playing an international-set sissy, and manages not to offend because he never for an instant loses the idiotic innocence of a small boy showing the gang what his big sister does in front of the mirror...