Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...
Opinions differ on how the Government should deal with the irregular economy. The Lasswell-McKenna report on Bedford-Stuyvesant calls for legalizing gambling as a means of taking the play away from criminals. A measure that would amend the constitution to legalize gambling is now before the New York legislature. Poor blacks tend to be against such a change because they distrust government, and they figure that the proceeds from gambling would be taken away from the black numbers runners and other local operatives. In addition, numbers men now extend credit to their customers, but legal betting parlors demand cash...
...also retains the faith that principles can be turned into models and that models can be explained in words. "The last Puritan," Kenner calls him. Fuller sees reality not as permanence but as process. "I seem to be a verb," he says of himself. A highly active and irregular one, and Kenner conjugates it with great understanding, grace and affection. -R.Z. Sheppard
...strictly a service news in the summer of '43, when it first became the University's only newspaper. But tucked in among columns by and for army and navy trainees--The Lucky Bag, Scuttlebut, Ward Room Topics, Specialist's Corner, Creating a Ripple, and the like--was an irregular bylined feature called "Passing the Buck," Written by the Service News first editor, Robert S. Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities with Yale...
...INTERFACE, developed by Boat Builder Ken Mobert of San Rafael, Calif., is played on a Y-shaped board with 108 squares and 18 irregular quadrilaterals. Six of the quadrilaterals -which are located in the triangular zone, or interface, where the three sectors of the board meet-are colored red and called "transit points." As in traditional chess, each player starts out with a regulation army of 16 pieces -red, black or white-which move in the standard way, unless they land on a transit point. Then strange things can happen. A bishop, for example, can transfer from a diagonal...