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Surely the plainest thug who read them Would cluck with ancient pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry: Combatting Society With Surrealism | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...shooting war 8,000 miles from home; attorney generals have not stuck to their basic jobs; the Supreme Court has become a manufacturer instead of an interpreter of the law; crime has tripled; strikes and riots are the rule, not the exception; the city of Washington is a thug-infested jungle; and a letter costs twice as much to post and takes twice as long to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Died. Larry Gallo, 41, New York Mafia thug, whose insurrection against Brooklyn Boss Joe Profaci from 1959 to 1963 stirred one of the bloodiest (eleven dead) gang wars since Al Capone's day, ended only when Profaci died in 1962 and Mafia higher-ups split the rackets between the two gangs; of cancer; in Mineola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1968 | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Philately may seem a gentle avocation, but Postmaster General Larry O'Brien knows better. After he approved a 5? stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Ponderer look like a thug, a Communist, a hippie or "a beatnik suffering from withdrawal symptoms." One fan even threatened civil disobedience. "If you bring a blown-up poster of this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send along a contingent of the National Guard." Fortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Philatelic Fury | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...hero (Rod Taylor) who is trained to be an 007 but turns out to be an 0. Assigned by The Chief (Trevor Howard) to assassinate an enemy agent, Taylor discovers that he is just too nice a guy to do such dirty work. So he hires a thug to plug his victims, and starts chasing his favorite redhead (Jill St. John) around a pad that looks like the 9th Regiment Armory lined with orange velvet. The Bondoggle ends, however, when the redhead comes up with an angle as well as a wiggle, and from there out the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can You Break a Cheery Spy? | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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