Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them. That was the province of the New York Bureau's Sandy Smith, who has made the Mafia his beat since the early 1950s when he was with the Chicago Tribune and during his years on LIFE. Since coming to TIME he has specialized in stories about the mob, gambling, crime in general. Sandy drew on his sources in Washington and New York in tracing the role of organized crime in heroin traffic. Says Smith: "The pusher-especially to kids-is lousy, but even he isn't as low as the gangster who finances it. Organized crime...
Rocks and Fists. Some troopers tried to drive the mob back with tear gas while other cops rescued the trapped children. As the children ran across the lawn, whites threw rocks at them, and then assailed the troopers. Then the attackers turned their fury on the buses, overturning two of them and smashing all the windows...
...issue revolved around a federal court order, yet only five federal marshals were present. They stood by while the mob attacked the children. But maintenance of order is primarily a state responsibility. McNair did not ask Mitchell for additional marshals or federal troops and failed to mobilize the National Guard...
...soon forgotten, and the reasons to riot became diffused-Viet Nam, pollution, the Establishment, a faculty dispute, the Chicago Seven verdict. That night, a mob of 400 attacked local realty offices, which, students claim, charge inflated rents. The rioters also broke every window in the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America...
...restaurant bar in Flint, Mich., in 1967. McLain, an accomplished musician, first became involved, says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, when he was booked into the Shorthorn Steak House to play the organ. There he met one Jigs Gazell, a bookie who reportedly has connections with a local Syrian mob loosely allied with Detroit's Cosa Nostra. With get-rich-quick promises, Jigs reportedly offered to cut McLain in on the action if he would back the operation with "a few thousand dollars." McLain and his close friend, Edwin Schober, then vice president of Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co. in Detroit, fell...