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...agents picked up 63 high-muck-a-mucks of U.S. crimedom, all from one barbecue pit. That day, big-time hoods from as far away as Arizona and California arrived to roast steaks and toast marshmallows at the secluded estate of a beer distributor and longtime racketeer named Joseph Barbara...
...gathering did indeed seem downright suspicious. And if only the captured guests had been willing to tell the real purpose of their conclave, the policemen's lot would have been a happy one. As it was, many said that they had merely gone to visit the ailing Barbara, who has since died of heart trouble. Two said their car had broken down near by. Another swore that he had come to sell Barbara some fish. Barbara himself said that all the guests had been more or less unexpected -and he just happened to have about 200 pounds of steak...
...Advocate last Monday named A. Melnick '62, of Quincy House and , its President. Elected head of the literary board, was Richard A. Rand '63, of Eliot House and Barbara, Cal.; Business Manager, Urrutia '63, of Quincy House and , Colombia; Treasurer, John S. '62, of Winthrop House and and Secretary, Michael P. Cain '63, Adams House and Kingston...
...November of 1957, sixty-three men met in the home of one Joseph Barbara in the village of Apalachin, New York; the conclave, raided by the State police, was widely assumed to have been a gangland convention. Almost two years later, twenty of these men were tried in a United States District Court on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. In the course of the trial, the prosecution was unable even to tell what had transpired at the Apalachin meeting. But the public obviously wanted to see the defendants in jail; the jury returned a verdict of guilty...
...American Heritage (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Lowell Thomas narrates "Born a Giant," the story of Andrew Jackson's turbulent early years, featuring Bill Travers Barbara Rush and Farley Granger...