Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schlossberg), a much bellied matinee idol 20 years his senior. Now the worm has turned. Castleman is on the skids, sponging off Sonny while sneering at him as a "mechanical rabbit," a thespian technocrat devoid of true passion. To top it all, Castleman involves Sonny in a gang war between black hoodlums and a Polish mobster. But Sonny simply loves the old gaffer all the more...
...Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration of a Chicago school...
...extension of Derek is his administration as embodied in the Mass Hall gang...
...best-or worst-example is a gang that last week snatched, for a few minutes anyway, Prince Luigi d'Angerio of Sant' Agata. Driving home from a late-night party with his wife Giuseppina and his son Alfredo, the dignified D'Angerio, 65, noticed a pair of headlights following them through the dense fog near Monza. Suddenly, an Alfa Romeo passed D'Angerio's little Fiat, and tried to force it off the road. The inept driver had pulled in front too quickly, however, and Alfredo, who was driving the Fiat, had no choice...
Even if the caper had succeeded, it might have been for naught. The gang apparently assumed that the prince could pay a princely ransom. Though D'Angerio is a descendant of the Anjou kings of France, he is not rich and is only the manager of a small textile factory. "Quite honestly," he sighed, "I don't know how my family could have scraped together a decent ransom...