Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet the evening trains from town. Drunk and angry, they grabbed stones, sticks and jagged pieces of metal to greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash train windows, dragging one young African messenger off and amputating his hands with a broad-bladed knife...
...Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...
...week reported the brand-new look of the passive resistance movement spearheaded by Negro youth in 48 cities in eleven Southern states: The young Negro, particularly the young college Negro, is now leading the battle for equal rights. And unless he is tossed into jail and onto a road gang, he is going to lead the battle for a long time to come. There are many reasons...
...candidates, the committee found its man: its own chairman, Orlando Winfield Wilson. To upgrade the job, Daley raised the superintendent's pay from $22,500 to $30,000. The new superintendent started work under few illusions. The morning of his appointment, Chicago papers reported on a four-man gang that stole $1,000,000 in furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments. The robbers said that they operated with impunity-before the FBI caught them and got them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted...
...Cool World, an adaptation of Warren Miller's novel (TIME, June 15), has a cast of young Negroes re-creating adolescent gang 'life in Harlem. After watching a gremlin-bugged Philadelphia opening (sandwiches flew from plates, breakaway bottles seemed made of high-grade steel, actors slipped and slid on the turntable set), Inquirer Critic Henry Murdock called it a "disturbing play, so close to commentary on a current scene that one wishes it might also have been a more effective play...