Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...sneak thief's fancy was tickled by a package of phonograph records, a man's hat and topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time...
...striking successes in fighting cholera outbreaks in East Pakistan and Thailand. Drugs are of little value against the disease, which kills mainly by causing a tremendous loss of body fluids; in the acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may be lost in a single day. Measuring the victim's need for fluids and body salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into solutions of copper sulfate ($1.50 per lb.). Pouring...
...boys told him only that Swanson had "a spasm in his throat," never mentioned the meat, which he could easily have removed. A fire department resuscitator squad that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...
...story that the xenophobic South African government hates most to see in foreign print. Reading exported accounts of the riot, External Affairs Minister Eric Louw issued a threat of reprisal against "offending foreign newspaper correspondents who are not Union nationals." Last week. Louw's truncheon fell on a victim not only obscure but innocent. Peremptorily ousted from the Union of South Africa after eleven years' residence was London-born Freelance Photographer Henry Barzilay, 38, who sells his footage to any cash customer, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Movietone News...