Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wily culprits cruise around wooded areas in cars (one gang used an airplane) during daylight hours to spot their victims, then strike at night. Armed with chain saws silenced with auto mufflers, they have to move too quickly to bother with the valuable branches (which are used for furniture legs and braces) or roots (which are made into gunstocks). All they want are the trunks, which they winch onto a truck and sell to sawmills to be processed for veneer...
Worst of all, the show seems to be dating badly. Maybe the idea of rewriting Romeo and Juliet as a plea for ethnic tolerance seemed more startling in the '50s than it does now. Maybe putting a gang of Puerto Ricans and a gang of non-Puerto Ricans on the stage and letting them slug it out in a ballet had more impact then. (Maybe Jerome Robbins's choreography was better than this production's, I suppose.) In any event, as a showstopping obscenity, "mother-loving" just doesn't make it any more...
Sometimes when Vice President Agnew reminisces about his old courthouse gang in Baltimore, he sounds like an alumni chairman going over the list of donors-so-and-so has hit it big, this other fellow is really raking it in. Agnew is unabashed about his own desire to "make some money" (Washington translation: become a millionaire), and he proclaims his admiration for the life-style of Palm Springs. He wants to live there some day. And Martha Mitchell some time ago said that she would be glad to leave Washington and get back to New York where John could "make...
...country by 50% in two years, according to John W. Powell, executive secretary of the International Association of College and University Security Directors. Even the 10 ft. brick walls of Harvard Yard have been insufficient to prevent a wave of thefts and assaults. Last fall, for example, a gang of seven Cambridge youths kicked and beat Freshman Philippe Bennett in the yard, then assaulted two more students-all within 100 yds. of the university police station. During one recent two-week period, Harvard police recorded 42 burglaries of student rooms...
Died. Frank (the "Fordham Flash") Frisch, 74, fiery second baseman for the New York Giants during the 1920s, later player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang (see SPORT...