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Many Republicans who are planning to run for office are doing their best to disguise their Republicanism. New Hampshire Congressman Louis C. Wyman, who is campaigning for the Senate seat of retiring Norris Cotton, is playing down his party affiliation. "This seat belongs to the people, not to any particular...
By taking over CNA, Gulf management hopes to buy a form of profit insurance. Kuwait, from whose oil fields Gulf gets more than half its worldwide crude supply, put curbs on production last year, and Gulf has been seeking ways to cushion the blow. Taking over CNA would also be...
In Philadelphia, a gang is called a "corner," and a gang leader is a "runner" or a "checkholder." Smokey, aged 19, dressed in a flaming red shirt and matching narrow-brimmed hat, is the runner of the Montgomery corner, and he is expecting trouble from the Norris Avenue corner, whose...
Some gangs are simply natural aggressors. The Norris Avenue corner is such a group of "crazies." Though the gang is small in number, each Norris is reputed to have two or three "bodies" under his belt. "Getting a body"-shooting someone in another gang-is the surest way a younger...
Getting out of a gang can be difficult. Big Bosco would like to retire; he was the leader of the Montgomerys before red-shirted Smokey took over the running of the war with the Norris Avenues. "I'm trying to get out of it," he says, "but Norris says...