Word: anastasia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relations, serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify him as a capodecina, or lieutenant, in the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino, an allegation that the union leader vehemently denied...
...sheer public craving for romance has kept alive the case of Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, who may or may not have escaped the Bolshevik assassins in 1918; undying interest has given wide hearings to several claimants to the identity of Anastasia. The divergent ideological fevers of mid-century America guaranteed that the Alger Hiss perjury case would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss...
...years' experience as a business journalist to untangle the economics of the health care system, an industry that employs more than 3 million people. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, a veteran political analyst, examined the complex issues and divergent proposals behind the health care debate in Congress. Anastasia Toufexis, a reporter for a physicians' newspaper before joining TIME as a Medicine section writer last year, described the intricacies of CAT scanners, coronary bypass surgery and other medical innovations that are as expensive as they are sophisticated...
...Anastasia M. Kalechitz...
...Graying, grandfatherly Aniello Dellacroce (translation: "little lamb of the Cross"), who has spent only six of his 62 years in prison, for attempted burglary, assault and tax evasion. He was long Gambino's underboss and chief peacemaker. As befits an ex-assassin for Albert Anastasia's Murder, Inc., Dellacroce settled disputes between rival clans by a direct method: having troublemakers eradicated. He took over the Gambino family soon after his release from prison last December after serving 4½ years for tax evasion and contempt of court...