Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fabulous to come out and see what beautiful paintings we have. People used to get depressed or angry and take it out on their homes. Now they take better care of them." In the Maravilla district of town, Artist David Lopez and Psychologist Sam Cepeda joined with the Arizona Gang to work on a Virgin of Guadalupe mural. After the painting was completed, gang members took a more proprietary interest in the neighborhood, and vandalism dropped sharply. "I could never get the Arizona boys to talk before," says Cepeda. "But," he adds, in typical professional jargon, "once they work...
...Yakuza in Japan is very much like the Mafia Stateside: a clandestine and very powerful criminal organization with heavy political connections. The Yakuza has its own code of conduct but, typically, the code has a kind of fearful stringency that makes the Mafia look by comparison like a gang of clubhouse rowdies...
Died. Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, 63, hardhitting Hall of Fame outfielder; of an apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game...
...analysis of the need for more professionally educated public servants might easily be applied to Harvard itself. As Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, said in a memo made public earlier this year, the University is run by a "Mass Hall gang," that is "too 'corporate'...viewing things solely in a business sense as opposed to being sensitive to the special concerns and needs of a scholarly operation...
West Berlin officials offered a reward of $65,500 for information leading to the arrests of eight suspected members of the Second of June Movement, the terrorist gang that claimed credit for the kidnaping.* All the suspects have been on police posters for more than a year. They are accused of being responsible for a wide variety of terrorist acts, including the murder last November of West Berlin Supreme Court President Günter von Drenkmann and a number of bank robberies, arsons and attempted assassinations of politicians and police officials...