Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle. Hollywood makes movies about it (The Brotherhood), and readers have put it on the top of the bestseller list (Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that it was. It is a vast, sprawling underground domain impossible to trace fully; but there is no longer any doubt that its most important part, its very nucleus, is La Cosa Nostra (LCN), otherwise known as the Mafia...
...Prague, the government stepped up its campaign to warn that it will deal harshly with disturbances. In thousands of leaflets, leaders of the liberal underground have called on Czechoslovaks to make the anniversary a national "day of shame" by boycotting state services; more than 200 people were detained for printing and distributing the leaflets. Determined to avert all demonstrations and minimize even passive resistance, the government urged all citizens to "watch out for disruptive elements," placed the army, police and people's militia on full alert and warned that anyone who failed to report to work would have...
...Determined to leave Russia, Kuznetsov could think only of getting permission to travel abroad. "Informers are what they like," he said to himself. "Fine. So they'll get a real piece of informing." He began to drop hints to the KGB that a new underground journal was about to be published by a group of his colleagues, including Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. Kuznetsov does not make clear whether his fabricated story actually placed those writers in any real danger. But he passes a tortured judgment on himself as well as other Soviet intellectuals. "I now believe," he says, "that...
Unrecorded Death. In this respect, at least, a whale's death resembles a human's, and takes on something of the tragedy of the unheroic and unnoticed. In a remarkable passage reconstructing the death of a whale tangled in an underground cable off Ecuador, Dr. Scheffer writes: "His is an unrecorded death, for the cable does not break. The soft words flow around his grave; the messages of life and death, the loving words and stupid words, and pesos up and pesos down. . . . The luminescent beasts and the dark beasts and the beasts in between come...
Bertex has since begun advertising in underground newspapers and the Saturday Review. The shirts will continue to be sold exclusively by mail order, Kaplan said. "The [Harvard] Coop wanted no part of the business and threw me out on my ear," he said...