Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many who can afford it simply buy their...
Aaron d'Aragon, a 15-year-old boy gang leader, is doomed on arrival at the Golden Gate Institute of Industry & Reform, a prison farm for adolescents. There, status is based on ability to humiliate weaker kids by sexual assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best...
...GORILLAS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A tough, cynical band of American convicts is pressed into service as behind-enemy-lines guerrillas in World War II. Ron Harper stars as Lieut. Garrison, the officer assigned to ride herd on the hoods. In the premiere, "The Big Con," the gang sets out to capture enemy plates used to print bogus U.S. currency...
...Barrow fancied himself something of a latterday Robin Hood, robbing only banks that were foreclosing on poor farmers and eventually turning into a kind of folk hero. But Faye Dunaway's Sunday-social prettiness is at variance with any known information about Bonnie Parker. The other gang members struggle to little avail against a script that gives their characters no discernible shape...
Died. Floyd G. Hoard, 40, solicitor general of northeast Georgia's Piedmont Circuit, a gang-busting state prosecutor elected in 1964 who personally led police on innumerable raids against gambling racketeers, auto thieves and bootleggers, all of whom flourish in his rural district; of injuries from at least six sticks of dynamite wired to his car's ignition; in Jefferson...