Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onetime Indiana farm boy who looks like an English teacher (which he was) and talks like a teetotaling church deacon (which he is). Wooden at 61 still stresses the coaching tenets he learned at Purdue under the late Ward ("Piggie") Lambert: "Get the players in the best of condition, and make them believe they are in better condition than our opponents, so they won't fold in the second half. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly but without hurrying. Get them to play as a team, always thinking of passing the ball before shooting...
...Puerto Rican ghetto where more than 70 "cliques" or "organizations" have formed in the past year. The members -mostly dropouts, reformed junkies, displaced Viet Nam veterans-are older, angrier, better armed and more socially aware. Their avowed enemy is not a rival gang but society. "In essence," says Benjamin Ward, deputy police commissioner for community affairs, "what the kids are saying is: 'Dammit, you've failed us. And if you're not responsible, who the hell...
...police later charged nine gang members with the murder; it is one of nine homicides for which gang members have been arrested in the past year. "The danger," says Ward, "is that there is a fundamental difference between the rhetoric of the leadership and the action of the periphery. The ten to 15 hard-core members in each group just can't control their own people...
That was tragically true of Black Benjie, 25, an ex-junkie respected as a peacemaker between black and Puerto Rican gangs. A member of the Ghetto Brothers, he tried to ward off a rumble four months ago, and was stabbed to death by members of the Immortals and Spades. The next day, through the intercession of the Javelins and Peacemakers, Ghetto Brother President Charlie Melendez met with the Immortals and Spades. After hearing their apology for the "misunderstanding," he decided against a war of revenge. In an extraordinary summit meeting of most of the gangs in the Southeast Bronx...
Once your car is the way you want it, you start going to Vilem B. Haan, an accessory shop that is like a pet shop for cars. There you buy a brassiere for your car, padded plastic cups that fit over the car's nose to ward off bugs and tar. "We sell them by the ton," says a salesman. And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked...