Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws to combat crime syndicates, which Johnson called "corporations of corruption." One bill would expand the immunity from prosecution granted to underworld witnesses...
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* By day he is Foppish Playboy Bruce Wayne, but at night he dons his puce long johns and his black bat hat and makes war on the diabolical denizens of the dark underworld. Adam West plays Bruce/Batman, and Burt Ward is Dick Grayson (alias Robin the Boy Wonder) in this revival of the 1940s comic strip. Premi...
...refrigerator, television, and-as a chastening reminder of the 32 murders in which the Justice Department estimates he took part-an electric hot plate. The Government feels obliged to protect Valachi because in ratting on the syndicate before the Senate's McClellan Committee, he violated "omertà," the underworld's blood rule of silence...
Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...
...only 20 poems, but six of them are egregiously good. One is a 30-page prose poem that contains this spectacular child's-eye view of a horse being shod: "He is enormous. His rump is a brown, glossy world. His ears are secret entrances to the underworld. One of his legs is doubled up behind him in an improbable affectedly polite way. Clear bright-green bits of stiffened froth, like glass, are stuck around his mouth . . and the cloud of his odor is a chariot in itself...