Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called), robberies and violence dropped on the Muggers' Express. Since then Sliwa has branched out. Every night the teams meet at Sliwa's McDonald's at 9 p.m., then head out in patrols of four. Though most members accepted into the Magnificent 13 have had some training in the martial arts, and some admit to carrying knives for protection when journeying alone at night, on patrol they have no weapons and even refused the walkie-talkie radios that the Transit Authority urged them to use. They do not want to seem part of the police. Patrolling, they...
Wearing red berets as a badge of office, the original 13 went into action last Feb. 13, with three teams patrolling what is known as the Muggers' Express, the No. 4 IRT train from Woodlawn in The Bronx to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn "We stopped a mugging the first night a 167th and River Avenue," one patroller remembers. "We asked the conductor to signal ahead to the next station, where we handed the mugger over to the transit police." A week later, they suffered their first casualty...
...best songs on their just released Warner Bros, album are all informed with this uninsistent but tenacious simplicity. They are haunted by memories of divided families (Hammond Song), faithless loves (Pretty and High) and tentative, thwarted personal encounters (The Train...
...until late 1976, when Suzzy left college and the women formed a trio, that the Roches began to appear again. They sang Christmas carols, played troubadours for small change at train stations, began to be noticed on the relay of folk-oriented clubs around New York...
...twice was soundly beaten. Eddie Arcaro admires the colt's delicate skill as well as his strength: "He's very agile; he strides beautifully. He's like a dancer." Conn McCreary, two-time Derby winner as a jockey and now a Florida trainer, watched Spectacular Bid train for Churchill Downs this spring. McCreary sums up: "He's the class this year. I just can't see anything getting close...