Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Purple Gang...
Last Thursday, a 16-year-old Chinese youth was shot to death in Boston's Chinatown. The victim was identified as a leader of a New York City gang involved in extortion and armed robbery. Police think that the five or six youths who shot him three times after beating him were also New Yorkers...
...realization, gained during his Washington years, that in politics "high ideals compete ... all the time with the grubby demons of human nature, usually in the same personality." He concluded, proudly, that though it was a near thing, American ideals and institutions had held against the assaults of the Nixon gang...
...other famous folks whom she had never known, she settled her diminutive form on one of the concrete flower boxes on an island in the middle of Times Square. Oblivious to the shouts and screeches of one of the world's busiest intersections, she did not notice the gang of young toughs approaching her. Then one of the gang shoved a hand into the old woman's pocket. As if from nowhere, a policeman ran up and collared the kid while his companions fled into the neon-drenched night...
Best Friends. It was on the streets of Potrero Hill, the ghetto where O.J. grew up, that he was slickest. As chief of a street gang called the Superiors, he was constantly juking himself and his followers out of trouble. "There were guys who could have taken O.J. in a fight," recalls Joe Bell, a friend from high school days. "But he had a way of manipulating people, of making them like...