Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to any factory gives the real clue to the country's troubles." One day last week, the sun poked through the haze above Mayfair just after the "elevenses" tea break and just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check up on workers who had been...
Apart from extorting an estimated $15,000 a year from local rubber-plantation owners and workers, Chin's gang appeared quiescent for almost a decade, but now is believed to be actively roaming Thailand's four southernmost provinces in league with the native Thai Reds, who operate farther north. In his own propaganda, Chin insists that "we are only resting in Thailand," but few Bangkok officials buy that. Says one: "Chin Peng worries us a little. But we will deal with...
Britain's "wanted men" have a knack for avoiding police. James White, a member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang, posed as a fisherman in Kent for 21-years before he was caught. Baby Strangler John Edward Allen lived for two years within 200 yards of a police station, was spotted only when his curiosity led him to the station bulletin board to look for his own wanted notice. Harry Roberts may not be so lucky. "Even if Roberts remained free for two years," noted the Observer, "every policeman in Britain would still go to sleep remembering...
...unions representing 180,000 electrical workers for what promises to be the main labor event in 1966. For weeks, G.E. has been fighting to prevent a coalition of eight unions, led by the International Union of Electrical Workers, into a single bargaining agent. Under present law, such a labor gang-up would seem to be patently illegal. But federal courts have ordered both G.E. and Westinghouse to talk to the unions as a group while the National Labor Relations Board frets over the problem...
Most victims paid, surrendering anywhere from $500 to $50,000, depending on what the extortioners had the temerity to ask. One wealthy Midwestern schoolteacher coughed up $120,000 over a four-year period. For those who would not pay, the gang was quite ready to carry out its threat of exposure. The marriage of one victim who refused to be intimidated was wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers...