Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rescuers, one black, one Hispanic and two Chinese, are on patrol for a vigilante group that calls itself the Magnificent 13. But for their presence at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse IRT station in The Bronx, the traveler might well have become one more grim ripple in the current wave of terror beneath New York's streets. Nobody is sure exactly how many people have been robbed and beaten in recent months by teen-age gangs, often while fellow passengers and even train conductors did nothing. Already this year there have been eight subway murders. On one particularly...
...situation got so bad that in March Mayor Edward Koch sent additional police underground to patrol subway trains between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. But the Magnificent 13 took up its underground patrols well before the mayor acted. The group's founder and leader is Curtis ("The Rock") Sliwa, 23, a night manager of the McDonald's restaurant at the corner of Broadway and 236th Street in The Bronx. Neatly turned out and ruggedly handsome, Sliwa became known as The Rock for his high school skill at brawling and an ability to go for days without sleep...
During a routine inspection, a team captain, Karl Smucker, 20, a cook at McDonald's, was knocked down by a thief lurking behind a garbage container. The rest of the patrol grabbed the attacker, but Smucker had already been slammed to the floor hard enough to break his jaw in two places...
Blood budgies. Mosquitoes, which soldiers on bush patrol find almost as lethal as the guerrillas...
Wombles. Elderly white police volunteers who patrol urban areas to ward off terrs. Usually they are armed only with batons, but for the election an exception was made: some wombles were given gats...