Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been canceled throughout Finland, and the 1,800-man Helsinki force has been bolstered with 800 special troops. Although Finland has no known terrorist groups and no organizations have publicly opposed the conference, police were nonetheless watching for foreign troublemakers, like West German anarchists associated with the Baader-Meinhof gang...
...called that--her statement about the need for love, a collective need to protect one another in a world which is ultimately inhospitable. These are, after all, the memoirs of a survivor--ultimately one can survive anything if bonds can develop between those who struggle. Not bonds of the gang, which works together only to survive, but those of real affection which can only develop as people learn to assume responsibility for one another, to protect one another from the holocaust...
...came from a 250 booklet ordered from the Franklin Novelty Co. of Philadelphia. It is the same organization that will buy moving-picture flip-books from a penniless Jewish immigrant. The peddler will end in Hollywood as Baron Ashkenazy, producer of those Rosetta stones of American nostalgia, the Our Gang comedies...
...passengers, guests of West Coast Mobster "Big Jim" Valenti, had lunched on a buffet of "selected Sicilian meat and cheese cuts," and they were looking forward to an evening at Valenti's hotel speakeasy, The Boiler Room. Big Jim, trigger-tempered head of the notorious "Doo Dah" gang, had arranged the party for the opening-night floor show starring his bride, a former Detroit showgirl named Boo Boo O'Hare. Boo Boo could warble like a thrush, it was said, and Valenti told one and all that she would be "the next Clara...
...making? Not on film, in any case. In fact, the whole thing is an elaborate fantasy produced and paid for by Multimillionaire Artist Bob Graham, who acts on the conviction that all the world's a stage. Big Jim, Boo Boo and the rest of the Doo Dah gang are actors getting paid $450 a week to portray gangland characters from the Roaring Twenties, primarily for the entertainment of Patron Graham-and anyone else who happens by. So far, this strange amusement has cost Graham some $600,000, with no end in sight...