Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite finished, but MGM has already bought the screen rights for $250,000, plus a cut of the gross. Titled The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, it is about the lighter side of the Mafia. To command those prices, Jimmy's agent must be a Sicilian who can shoot straight...
Died. Dr. Guido Guida, 71, Sicilian ear-nose-and-throat specialist who in 1935 founded the International Radio Medical Center (CIRM) in Rome, which provides assistance for ships at sea that lack doctors, has radioed remedies and even emergency surgical instructions for some 40,000 ailing seamen; of cancer; in Rome...
...land of Michelangelo, Garibaldi and the Medicis there reigns a vast and unusual variety of contemporary heroes. The Italians idolize Grand Prix drivers, artists, novelists and occasionally Sicilian banditti. They fall barely short of adoring Nino Benvenuti, the boxing champion. They lavish attention on their celebrated movie directors-Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini. And who, of course, could overlook Gina or Sophia...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...