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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, as now, East 108th Street was a hard place to live. It was harder to leave. The palaces of Manhattan's power and wealth rose up only a few blocks to the south, but to the poor of Italian Harlem, they were as remote and incredible as the palaces of India. Frank Costello escaped to live in them by a process as devious and dangerous as an escape from Devil's Island. He became a rumrunner, a slot-machine king, a gambler and intimate of killers, a political fixer-and a man of riches and influence...
...professed to be a happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
...bitter Army men call "the logistical end of the line," and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient. More than 15,000 U.S. troops, whose morale and discipline have probably been worse than that of any U.S. force in the world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef...
Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
Dean William C. DeVane of Yale College said last night the trio had been suspended over the weekend and the two who live near New Haven sent home. He sent letters to the students' parents explaining the action, which goes on their records, he said...