Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public apathy may also be a mea sure of what Wayne State Sociologist Joseph L. Albini calls a community's "crime tolerance." Middle-class white mothers, for example, rarely let gang at tacks on their children go unreported...
...marry creates hysteria in Vienna by running around costumed as a Habsburg eagle. Siggy's real father is a Yugoslav who escapes on a motorcycle in 1944, during the terrible struggle between the German army, Tito's partisans, Mihailovich's Chetniks and a Croatian terrorist gang...
...attended 15 schools. Throughout it all, he was earning his own spending money. At 10, he bought copies of the Bayonne Times on the newsstands for a penny, hawked them in bars and restaurants for two cents. He shined shoes, dug ditches, sold peanuts, labored on a construction gang. At 18, he toured New England with his own bingo game. After four years as a Marine fighter pilot in World War II, he got a degree in speech and drama from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., then moved to Philadelphia, where, among other things, he found...
Valachi's career coincides with the rise of the Cosa Nostra itself and reads like a kind of how-to-succeed manual for middle-echelon mobsters. At 18, Valachi was already a veteran "wheelman" (getaway driver), but he made the mistake of joining an "Irish gang." That move so displeased the Italian underworld that while Valachi was serving time for theft, he received as chastisement a knife wound that ran under his heart and around to his back, requiring 38 stitches...
...communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming and plotting on the part of the prize jury (TIME, Nov. 29) to provide material for a brilliant satire. The winning author...