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...Sunday in February. The steamy series (60 installments are planned) has so far lived up to its billing. Among Star allegations: many officers are involved in prostitution, both as paid "protectors" and nonpaying patrons. Police shakedowns of drug pushers and users are "a way of life" in the Indianapolis underworld. Some policemen regularly traffic in stolen goods...
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night With bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite, He tried sellin his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street, But they said, "Johnny, it falls apart so easy and you know hearts these days are cheap...
...life was not a model of underworld career management, it was a commercial moviemaker's dream. To begin with, his passion for upward mobility inevitably brings up the tragic gangster heroes of cinema history -those overreaching Little Caesars whose dreams of success were so satisfyingly animated by the likes of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney...
...almost everywhere except in Boston, and where it was said that the movie owed its success to its realistic handling of the local environment. The movie did much more; it's perhaps the only gangster story with social roots intact. The story is about the low-level gangster's underworld of Boston--of petty cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game--and of the dreams that keep them going, the Florida vacation or the hot piece of ass. It's an honest movie, true clean through...
Confidence is now reportedly on the rise in the powerful circles close to the top. "I think we're finally on the right track," said one high official who wished to remain anonymous. "This policy of benign neglect which we've been following in regard to the underworld for years and years just hasn't paid off in dollars and cents. It's as if General Motors never made any cars or trucks and just tried to wish Ford out of business. That's ridiculous, of course. Why should things be any different in the public sector? The states...