Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAFIA business is not precisely booming these days, but business about the Mafia has never been better. There are nearly 1,000,000 God father hard covers in print, and over 10 million paperbacks. Jimmy Breslin's bestselling comic novel The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - said to be a takeoff on the chaotic exploits of Brooklyn's Gallo gang - was recently reincarnated as a movie. Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, a detailed and understanding portrait of the son of Mafia Boss Joseph Bonanno, has been on the bestseller lists for four months...
...There was no give on the problem of divided Korea. What was said about the threat of the Soviet Union, which after all was the principal impetus for getting together in the first place, only the participants know as yet. The communiqué deplored any effort by countries to gang up on one another, and Kissinger took pains in his press conference to assert that the new U.S. relationship with China "is not directed against the Soviet Union" -an assertion that Moscow may just not believe, and with some reason...
...York Vaudeville News. He joined the New York Mirror as a columnist in 1929 and began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...
...Gang, Roth...
...Gang, Roth...