Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partisan legislature and local government make the party organization of little importance. The conservative Douglas County (Omaha--half the state) "courthouse gang" is about the only machine worth attacking. This the largely McCarthyite, newly-founded Nebraska Democratic Coalition is seeking to defeat in the April '69 Omaha mayoralty elections. Founded by Omaha lawyer Frank Martin Jr., the Coalition has brought in significant black support from the Northside ghetto of Omaha. The Kennedy forces who remained following the May primary have joined the Coalition. If the liberals take Omaha next year and can organize as well as they...
...PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. Pieces about life styles in America and a chronicle of the cross-country antics of Novelist Ken Kesey and his psychedelic sidekicks, by America's foremost pop-journalist...
Temperatures further cooled when police announced that they had rounded up 23 Arab suspects, two of them high school students captured moments after the bombs went off. The students confessed, and police said that they were members of a terrorist gang that set off three bombs in Jerusalem last month, one of which had sparked a similar Israeli rampage against Arabs. In the future, Tel Aviv will be safer, if not so clean: as a precaution, the city's sanitation department removed its metal litter baskets from the downtown streets...
...result of their recent appearance on TV, Chicago's police will have to work hard to erase the impression that they are a gang of undisciplined bullies. Whatever their image, though, the fact is that Mayor Daley's cops are among the most carefully screened in the nation...
...Pump House Gang is a sequel to the earlier collection of articles. Wolfe, with characteristic flair, romps through such diverse subjects as Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, Marshall McLuhan, the California surfing cult, Carol Doda (the topless go-go girl with silicone-inflated breasts), the pop art collectors Bob and Spike Scull and teenage London society. What he achieves is an impressionistic interpretation of new status symbols and contemporary life styles...