Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political convention sees so much of the anchor man and his star reporters that the program might well be called Walter Cronkite and His Friends...Likewise, the NBC coverage might be better known as the David Brinkley Show...I think the time has come to ban the media mob from the floor...Then the viewers could enjoy the game-excuse me, the convention-as it is actually played in all its sweet, boring interludes...
...deserve Mr. Eagleton. His display of maturity, stability and selflessness is not homogeneous with the irrational, virulent, self-seeking mob of America today...
Three weeks ago, for example, a muscleman named Carlo Lombardi strolled into the Raveniti Social Club, a mob hangout in Little Italy. Lombardi, who harbored a grudge against the powerful Gambino family, spied some members of the clan and immediately began blazing away with his automatic pistol. All six shots missed their mark, and Lombardi quickly fled into the night. Unruffled, the Gambinos dispatched two gunmen to track down Lombardi and then resumed their discussion of the fate of the Manfredi cousins, Phillip J. ("Little Phil") and Phillip D. ("Big Phil"), judged guilty of double-crossing a Gambino capo...
...reaction was immediate and apoplectic. Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy called the murders a "terrible, frightening crime." Mayor John Lindsay vowed that "the Mob must be stopped and the gangsters run out of town...
...American Civil Liberties Union immediately registered its quite justified objection to such damning disclosures without trial. Meantime, the Mob's high commission met in emergency session, condemned the Gallo faction for killing so sloppily, and as a penalty ordered the Gallo band to be broken up among the other New York Mafia families. The Gallos, now led by Joey's kid brother Al, arrogantly refused and promised that their gang war would...