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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a collapsed fire escape (the woman died, but the child survived). Last week the police came up with enough evidence to bring arson indictments on 35 of the fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal bureau: "This is just the tip of the iceberg...
...with their own evidence that landlords and others were deliberately torching buildings in their community. Armed with these documented complaints, Bellotti ordered the state's criminal bureau to begin the probe that led to last week's indictments against what officials charge is the largest known arson ring in the U.S. One lesson of the Boston arrests is that in order to fight back against organized arson, the victims themselves may have to get organized and join forces with beleaguered -and all too often insufficiently interested-city officials...
Pinball's rebirth is especially visible in suburban shopping centers. The bells ring again on college campuses, in airports, clubs and hotels. Even in Las Vegas, where any form of competition to the lucrative slots was discouraged, at least ten major hotels now have space reserved for pin play. A Midwestern firm has installed pins to keep its salesmen on a competitive kick at lunchtime. Celebrated pinball addicts-who do not call themselves pinheads-include Andrea McArdle, star of Annie; Bill Cosby, Ann-Margret, Mike Nichols, Sammy Davis Jr., Elliott Gould and, of course, Elton John, whose role...
...prison guard into the inner confines of the penitentiary, enabling Young to run through a quick introduction of the various inmates around whom the plot centers. Miguel Pinero fills his script with the street-wise argot of Harlem and the South Bronx that gives the dialogue an authentic ring. The effective color and accuracy of the ghetto-flavored jive should hardly come as a surprise; Pinero owes this ability to evoke a particular brand of slang to his own experience as an inmate at Sing Sing Prison. The crisp repartee that dominates the opening moments of Short Eyes soon becomes...
...author of "The Harvard-Radcliffe Prostitution Ring," an article in the November issue of Oui magazine, said yesterday he never interviewed any members of the alleged ring...