Word: gangland
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Racists & Razors. The decision to maintain standards has been a long uphill fight. Soon after integration, white and Negro students began living by gangland rule. Bullies of both races extorted nickels and dimes from younger students; when arguments started, the races closed ranks. To prevent gang fights, teachers patrolled the lavatories, frisked pupils for razors, switchblades, and beer can openers with honed edges. Though officials hushed up the mess for three years, the lid blew off in 1958, when young Negro toughs beat up two white teachers. White students fled the school, and few dreamed that it would ever...
...Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance...
...November of 1957, sixty-three men met in the home of one Joseph Barbara in the village of Apalachin, New York; the conclave, raided by the State police, was widely assumed to have been a gangland convention. Almost two years later, twenty of these men were tried in a United States District Court on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. In the course of the trial, the prosecution was unable even to tell what had transpired at the Apalachin meeting. But the public obviously wanted to see the defendants in jail; the jury returned a verdict of guilty...
...York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would not be solved by disarming young hoods: "The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see, it's his sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring back the Middle Ages." When Wallace noticed the mouse on his cheekbone. Mailer grinned. "Yes." he chuckled, "I got into quite a scrape Saturday night...
...then in high school. Signing up more duck-tailed mercenaries for The Last Angry Man, she took six toughs along with her as she prowled the streets with cash in hand to pay off others. The boys liked her, soon introduced her to the epicenter of gangland, a sort of Joint Chiefs of Staff. From Puerto Ricans to Sicilians, punks to finks, the Joint Chiefs have since taken care of the exact requirements of any screenplay being cast by Sally Perle...