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...very easily anyway. So reveling in their new-found security, brine-bitten capos can be seen piloting sleek craft off Long Island, putting proudly into port in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Though they favor yachts, one captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built...
Rare Versatility. The son of a Bronx postal worker, Williams got some early training as a sprinter on New York City streets. "We used to have a thing on my block where all the kids would try to catch the ice-cream truck as it was driving away and open the back door," Williams recalls. "I was usually the first one there." In high school he concentrated on the quarter-mile event, running sprints only occasionally. He began to shift that emphasis when, in only his third competitive 100-yd. dash, he equaled a New York State high school record...
...several of America's largest cities, the gangs are back-and with some ominous differences. Older, better armed, more sophisticated, the gangs today operate in all too deadly earnest. New York City has had 27 gang-related murders reported this year-ten of them in the seething South Bronx, where 877 gang arrests have taken place in 1973. In Chicago the gangs have largely graduated to big-time crime as profiteers in guns, extortion and gambling. Los Angeles has nearly 200 gangs, more than 40 of which are black or Chicano. Their clashes have caused 16 deaths this year...
Abplanalp was born in The Bronx to Swiss immigrant parents. His father was a machinist who instilled in his son a liking for gadgetry and tinkering. Abplanalp studied engineering at Villanova, but dropped out to open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak...
...after publishing this story. The Times reported that Biaggi was to be called in front of yet another grand jury. Biaggi did not know how to handle these thrusts. While no one has ever uncovered any evidence of any wrongdoing by Biaggi, the Bronx Congressman's response to these charges only left people convinced something was fishy. Biaggi flew off the handle after each of these stories, charging that there was a conspiracy against him. He clarified nothing and with the release of the grand jury testimony only showed that he was a liar...