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...around Compton's Leuders Park taking drugs, playing basketball and planning robberies and burglaries. "I do my share," acknowledges Bartender, explaining: "People be broke." But mainly the Piru plots, attacks and defends itself against its hated enemies, the local chapter of the Crips, which is perhaps the most vicious and largest street gang in the area. (The Crips got its name when its leader was shot in the leg and thereafter strutted around his turf with a cane...
...that the city's black-run numbers racket was a $2 million-a-year bonanza, not the penny-ante game that the Mob had always thought. Soon after Giancana was released, he and other Young Turks in the Mafia won control of the numbers through a series of vicious kidnapings, beatings and murders of black racketeers...
Since the last vestiges of the fixed-commission system vanished by SEC order on May 1, a vicious rate-cutting war has erupted among brokers. On many trades big institutional investors (mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, bank trust departments) are paying commissions 20% to 60% lower than those charged in April. Rate cutting on that scale, if continued, could force some weaker brokerages into bankruptcy or emergency mergers with stronger investment houses...
...movie is good enough to keep company-Jaws relies on both the immediacy of illusion and the safety it provides. The menace so cunningly created and enlarged comes close enough to have caused loud screams and small tremors of terror at pre-release screenings. Yet Jaws is vicarious, not vicious, a fantasy far more than an assault. It is a dread dream that weds the viewer's own apprehensions with the survival of the heroes. It puts everyone in harm's way and brings the audience back alive. And in Jaws, the only thing you have to fear...
...singing a different tune lately. He plays down the personal intensity of his editorial relationship with Kearns and when asked questions about it, he pauses signally, then, in a subdued and condescending voice, says, "Are you still writing that kind of stuff?" Glikes says that Kearns has launched a "vicious whispering campaign," a "desperate and dispicable attempt to justify something that cannot be justified." Moral outrage is brimming in all Glikes's statements. With an established scholarly reputation as an editor and publisher that he is not willing to hazard for one intractable writer, Glikes is looking forward...