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Twisted Trail. Within hours, the city, long inured to the rumbles of the Sinners, the Assassins, and other juvenile gangs, was raging with anger over the latest outbreak of wanton murder; since January, New York teen-age gang warfare had accounted for eight senseless killings and scores of beatings and knifings." Flanked by reporters, the police fanned out to follow the twisted trail left by "Cape Man," "Umbrella Man" and their pals...
...stately Greenbrier last week for a three-day meeting "to figure out how we can live under this new law," as Hoffa put it. Hoffa's fight to emasculate the House labor bill had failed. Teamster Lobbyist Sidney Zagri's warnings of political reprisals had stirred more anger than fear on Capitol Hill. Now, confronted with the prospect that a tough bill might emerge from the House-Senate conference. Hoffa wanted his lawyers to help him find easy ways to evade...
Savonarola added withering philippics on the tyranny of Lorenzo the Magnificent to his repertory of complaints against the church. Sensation-hungry Florentines packed in to hear his denunciations, and when friends warned him not to anger the powerful Lorenzo, Savonarola replied grimly: "Though I am here a stranger and he the highest citizen, yet I shall remain and he shall depart." In 1492 Lorenzo was dead. Echoing in the ears of the impressed Florentines was the preacher's reiterated warning: "Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter [Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over...
...Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office phones. Oregon's Democratic Edith Green took her own Zagri-inspired protests awhile, burst out in rare anger: "He can go to hell...
...diehards could do. Come next session of the legislature, the narrow majorities by which the moderate school program squeaked through last April will probably be enlarged by the votes of legislators who once were simply afraid to vote for any bill that might stir up Byrd's anger...