Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything to do with the killings; they claim that warring gangs are to blame. Last week, however, a TIME correspondent reported that several lower-and middle-echelon police officers have admitted to him that death squads are indeed manned by off-duty cops. They claim that the majority of hoodlum killings are disguised gangland slayings, but they concede that many are summary police executions. According to one informant, who was a charter member, the first squad was organized in 1958. It was a tightly knit group of 16 policemen who rubbed out an average of a hood a week...
...show does better than the gags. There's a hint of elegant symmetry to the plot which brings Hatchet Ma Marion and her splendidly repressed son to Bootleg, U.S.A., a last outpost of boisterous prohibition violation. After Rock, the pink-spatzed hoodlum who runs the town, has dropped 45 jokes about his daughter Belle's drunkenness, the 46th ought to be an embarassment, but such is the momentum that...
Sweaty Palms. Beyond sociological reasons lie the personal fears, guilt and shame of the victim himself. Police rarely hear from the businessman who has been robbed by a prostitute. They are even less likely to get a complaint from the hoodlum who has been threatened by the Mafia or the teen-ager who has paid for pot and got oregano instead. In instances of child molesting, some parents are either too ashamed themselves to go to the police or want to spare their youngsters further embarrassment...
...better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno...
...seem ever less grateful, ever more pugnacious-just as organized labor grew more militant with each advantage gained. Where will it all end? ask many uneasy Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed to higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed by a black-nationalist hoodlum or move in with a beaded, bearded white hippie? Will Junior's college career-the dividend of long years of saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong flags and spit on the Stars and Stripes that Dad fought for in World...