Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King, counter-demonstrations by George Lincoln Rockwell, and the Speck massacre: each crisis made the policeman's job more hectic and trying. But during the summer, the police faced another, less-noticed problem-the rise of the Mighty Blackstone Rangers, a well-organized, tightly - disciplined street gang, which, according to police statistics, is the toughest and most violent teenage group ever to roam Chicago's South Side. The Ranger's unimpeded success forced urgent evaluation of existing relations between police and ghetto youth...
...Chicago, the Blackstone Rangers also create another sort of dilemma. On one hand they are the terroristic street gang. Police estimate the Rangers are responsible for twenty to twenty-five shootings a month. Their extortion fund produces literally thousands of dollars in bail money each month. Hardly a day passes, when the Rangers are not accused of a violent offense...
...force of social-activism within their community. The Rangers' meeting place is the First Presbyterian Church in Woodlawn. The Reverend there not only openly supports the Rangers but feels "the group has a lot of value . . . our future community leaders may come from it." Another Reverend praises the gang for resisting "the pressure some West Sides brought on the Rangers to start something here (in Woodlawn) during the West Side riots. But instead the Rangers worked hard among their members to keep...
...other words, to use a coined term, the Rangers are social dynamite. Their membership numbers upwards of 1500, ranging in age from young teens to twenty-two year old leaders. As a gang the Rangers carry a big charge; a charge so energetic and vocal that it thrusts the Rangers into a new classification markedly different from past teenage street gangs...
...Great British Train Robbery is neither great nor British. It is, however, a robbery-by the Germans, of an idea that could have made an excellent picture. The film dramatizes the 1963 hold up of a Royal Mail 'train from which a gang of crooks heisted a world-record $7,000,000, most of it still unrecovered...