Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bullet Park, Cheever...
MANHATTAN IS MISSING, by E. W. Hildick (Doubleday; $3.95). A science-fiction title, a threatening ransom note, a secret meeting, and a wild chase across Central park-all more or less in pursuit of Manhattan, a fussy Siamese...
Protecting People. Much of the recorded conversation centered on the fine points of murder, and it was clear that, in the underworld, neatness counts. The 1951 gunning down of Willie Moretti in a Cliffside Park, N.J., restaurant was distasteful to Angelo DeCarlo, who had a better idea: "Now like you got four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel...
...Bullet Park, Cheever...
...Declared that the Lake Nixon Club, a whites-only, 232-acre amusement park near Little Rock, Ark., had illegally excluded Negroes. By a 7-to-l vote, the court ruled in favor of two Little Rock Negroes-Rosalyn Kyles and Doris Daniel-who had been denied membership at Lake Nixon. The "club," decided the court, was really a "public accommodation" involved in interstate commerce and was forbidden by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to discriminate against the women. In a lone dissent, Justice Black argued that Lake Nixon was in an isolated spot unlikely to attract...