Word: placing
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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...
...reaching this comfortable estate, Frank Costello had also achieved a peculiar but significant place in U.S. society. The rackets, like college football, the labor movement, and the care and breeding of Christmas trees, had inevitably become big business. The brain had replaced the muscle, the injunction had become more potent than the Tommy gun, and surviving warriors of prohibition upheld the status quo. Frank Costello, "legitimate businessman," dramatically typified the change...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
...week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
...wants immediate public field trials to test the various systems. CBS declares that it is "perfectly willing to compete with any color TV system any place, any time." But it insists that "a system [its own] can be picked now on the basis of its known performance." Extensive trials, argues CBS, are unnecessary and would be costly and confusing...