Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME covers have caused as much stir as the Herblock cartoon on the Oct. 3 issue, showing Nikita Khrushchev and his leather-jacketed gang of "East Side Rockets" prowling a New York street near the United Nations Building. Readers liked it; the subjects were understandably silent. Then last week there came a reaction from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, who was shown on the cover as a trenchcoated observer coolly watching from the sideline as K. and gang prowled. Belgrade's Vecernje Novosti (Evening News) carried a front-page picture of Tito and members of his executive council looking...
Dempsey presents an interesting moral conflict in his play. The plot concerns two teen-age gangs who are weary of the constant wars caused by the personal grudges of their leaders, "Dutch" and Monk." Monk's gang plans a sneak attack on Dutch's outfit. It takes the seemingly cowardly act of a member of Monk's gang, Pete, who rats to Dutch about the attack, to reconcile the two gangs...
Explaining the situation in his neighborhood, James Provinzano said, "there are a group of characters in my neighborhood. I pass by them on the street, and I know I'm different--I'm going to college. They can have their gang wars...
...plan has drastically reduced crime among boys on whom it was applied. Of the 25 boys under the program, only three have been returned to prison--an amazing figure when contrasted with the national return rate of 50 per cent. The boys were not picked at random; rather, key gang leaders, "incorrigibles," were chosen for the program. In fact, before Slack was interested he had to be convinced that each boy "had seldom or never been able to hold a job, had an extensive court record, had been in correctional institutions, was unable to save and plan purchases, was convinced...
...class ideals and may even employ methods which the middle-class would not approve. "If the kids hang out in bar-rooms, the scientist will just have to go into the bar-room," Slack said. "If necessary to gain their confidence we might even buy loud jackets for a gang. In fact, the laboratory will often find itself in the position of using the minor vices to cut down on the major ones." Slack realizes that the public would have a right to object to tax funds being used to buy jackets for gang members, and finds this another reason...