Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police blamed the carnival violence on "disaffected youth gangs, not much older than children." Most of the toughs, they said, did not even live in the Notting Hill area, but had traveled from as far as Manchester, 183 miles away...
...advisers had been jailed on charges of embezzling $7 million from her Congress Party's campaign funds. Then last week the investigators landed their biggest catch so far: ex-Defense Minister Bansi Lal, 49, who was arrested on charges of misappropriating $60,000 from the party's youth wing...
...fact, it was Lal's Sanjay connection that most intrigued observers of India's gathering political storm. Mrs. Gandhi's son treated the Congress Party's youth movement, whose funds Lal is accused of stealing, as his personal fief. Both have been granted anticipatory bail against possible charges relating to other investigations. Most of the probes are unrelated, but in at least one the two men could be implicated jointly. At issue: whether Lal arranged the sale of state land to Sanjay at below market prices for the construction of a controversial automobile plant, and whether...
...acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current B-epic film called The Van implies that this is still so. Yet advantaged juveniles cannot be blamed for the flocks of high-priced custom vans that have popped up in the past few years. In fact, vanning enthusiasts include...
...Durrell inspects Sicily-its history, people, temples, flowers. He pauses for a charming lecture on Empedocles (Durrell is an intellectual name-dropper). He loves sudden transportations over centuries. One afternoon the bus comes upon a serenely classical car crash: "The occupant of the sports car was a handsome blond youth, and he was lying back in his seat as if replete with content, with sunlight, with wine. The expression on his face was one of benign calm, of beatitude...But the little man whose stethoscope was planted inside his blue shirt over the heart was...making the traditional grimace...