Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shots at the Shutters. News of the attempted conquest electrified all Argentina. The nation's Peronist labor unions called for all-out mobilization to conquer the Malvinas. A gang of toughs invaded the British consulate at Rosario and burned a portrait of Queen Victoria. In Buenos Aires, eight shots were fired at the shuttered windows of the British embassy, where Prince Philip had just arrived for a three-week goodwill visit. To calm the uproar, President Juan Carlos Ongania issued an announcement declaring that while the islands were the rightful property of Argentina, the government would stand...
...streets, stores and homes. The investment may have been justified by the alleviation of people's great fear about riding the subways, but we should be clear that in terms of crime prevention, we do not know whether a similar sum spent on other prevention techniques, such as juvenile gang programs or better radio equipment, would or would not be a better investment in actual, overall safety...
Penn has a good gang of sophomores too. The Crimson's Doug Hardin, who has won both races this year, placed first in the freshman meet with Penn in 1965. But within five seconds of Hardin came five Quakers. They're back this year and they could give Hardin another tussle...
...frail tykes born two months premature, Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets have developed into quite a gang. "They are terrible," groaned Mamá Inés Maria Cuervo de Prieto as the five boys celebrated their third birthday with the neighbor children in Maracaibo. "Anyone who stays with them for more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest...
...clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon turns into a riot, during which the stompers stomp the preacher, wreck the chapel, and gang rape the dead man's grieving girl friend...