Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Reid and his clan of golfers at St. Andrews in Yonkers are known to posterity as the Apple Tree Gang. Reid had emigrted from Dumfermline, Scotland, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, who later became member of St.Andrews. Reid was on hand at the historic moment when the first golf ball was struck on American soil. After his friend Bob Lockhart had brought over a set of clubs from Scotland, he tried them out in New York City on 72nd Street near the Hundson River, which is now Riverside Drive...
...designated hours on specified days, Bomp would call a San Francisco number to chat with a sidekick named Jimmy Fratianno; at other times he would dial a Las Vegas booth for messages from Tony Spilotro, a Chicago gang heavyweight. He also received calls at the booth. A Mafia member for 40 years, Bomp was a consequential figure in the Mob hierarchy. He was also an informant for the FBI, the highest-placed Mafioso in that role...
...grim prospect of a professional coast-to-coast gang methodically exterminating potential court witnesses and FBI informants has led the bureau to assign agents in 20 field offices to the case. Findings so far have strengthened the FBI'S hit-team suspicions. Two .22 pistols discarded after killings were traced to a Miami sporting-goods store that went out of business a few months ago. FBI lab tests show that the .22-cal slugs that killed Capone and Chin came from the same weapon -which has not been found. But both men were also linked through their mutual connection...
Faced with the Katangese invasion-which may be part of larger Soviet designs in Africa-and with rising dissatisfaction among his own people because of high prices and corruption, Mobutu has vented his frustrations on foreign newsmen, who were branded "an irresponsible gang of adventurers" by the government-controlled press. Zaïre even expelled Associated Press Correspondent Michael Goldsmith for reporting-quite accurately -that a major rally, called by Mobutu to demonstrate popular support for his regime, had been marked by "an almost complete lack of enthusiasm." No matter. At week's end the government turned...
Women's sports at Harvard usually combine an easy-going competitive spirit with good-natured fun. It's really too bad that other schools don't act that way, like the Ghengis Khan gang from Yale which upended Radcliffe tennis on Saturday...