Word: apalachin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the police, last week's mass meeting was "without precedent" in Calabria. The hoods did, however, steal a few lines from some distant cousins. After the famous 1957 raid at Apalachin, N.Y., the 60 mobsters who were seized there explained that they had assembled for nothing more sinister than a friendly cookout. To a man, the Montalto Mafiosi insisted that they were just "gathering mushrooms...
Much is changing. Though more vigilant observation might have detected it long before, a major revelation occurred in 1957, when New York state police happened upon a meeting of the Commission and its lieutenants at the estate of Joseph Barbara in upstate Apalachin. The authorities were able to find out who the mobsters were and, more important, that they were together. In 1962, Joe Valachi, the Cosa Nostra soldier-turned-informer, confirmed and explained what the FBI had been hearing from its bugs for months. Though he looked at the Mob from the bottom up, Valachi's remarkable memory nonetheless...
Even the Bedouins. Gun controls obviously cannot stop crime or wanton killing, and no one claims that they can. Laws can be circumvented. At the 1957 Apalachin "crime convention," twelve of the 35 New York residents collared by police were "clean" under the provisions of the state's tough Sullivan law?they had pistol permits. Unless an amateur psychiatrist in a gun shop or a police station had recognized him as a paranoid schizophrenic, Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper who killed or wounded 46 people two years ago, would have been able to assemble his lethal armory despite strict...
...boys had barely finished their cocktails in La Stella's restaurant out in Queens, when New York's finest burst into the joint to bust up what the Queens D.A. called a meeting even "bigger than Apalachin" of top Cosa Nostra hoodlums from New York, Florida and Louisiana. It did look like a summit at that: Santo ("Louis Santos") Trafficante, 51, boss of Cuba's pre-Castro gambling, Thomas ("Tommy Ryan") Eboli, 55, running...
...that bloody feud that led to the Apalachin summit meeting of Cosa Nostra higher-ups in November 1957. There the council approved Genovese's action, and he emerged as undisputed boss. For his part, Gambino inherited Anastasia's spot as a New York capo...