Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous hoodlum declared that he was going to get Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
Greeks burned their dead heroes on great funeral pyres; Vikings launched their mourned leaders seaward in great ships. What funeral rites should assist a leather-jacketed motorcycle chieftain of California's hell-raising Hell's Angels to his grave? The problem arose last week after James T. Miles, 30, died in a head-on collision between his motor cycle and a truck in Oakland, Calif...
Sacramento's Hell's Angels, a branch of the Los Angeles organization. When the state attorney general cracked down on their rampaging rallies, Miles protested. "The stories spread about our wild sex and marijuana parties," he said, "are exaggerated. If we even tried, the cops might swoop down and bust it up. They harass us, they spread lies and call us bad seeds." Then last May he hauled down the Sacramento Angels' emblem-a death's-head wearing a helmet and wings-and departed for Oakland to seek "a better life," free from "police harassment...
...righteous. Any time there was a party, he was the first one there and the last to leave." When the "chicks" in leather boots and dark tights, usually proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly deafen the bystanders as the cortege gunned its way to the cemetery. "We wanted to see he got a proper burial," explained...
...million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they, for it was not an extraditable charge...