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...candidate before the 1948 Democratic Convention. He feuded with reporters. He enraged millions of his fellow citizens in the summer of 1950-when the district attorney began unearthing corruption in New York-by staging the biggest police funeral in city history for a captain who had put a bullet through his head while under investigation...
Scientists & Shoe Factories. In many ways balding, bullet-scarred, 56-year-old Lemuel Shepherd is a stereotype of that curious (to civilian eyes) phenomenon, the modern American general. Like scores of his kind, Shepherd, in war or peace, must be part military man, part lobbyist, and part public-relations man-never too busy to make a speech, receive a Congressman or hold a press conference. He draws his strength from appropriations. His divisions are irrevocably involved not only with scientists and arsenals, but with shoe factories and the New York garment district...
Rumors continue to circulate that the 60-year-old Ho is dead as a result of 1) tuberculosis, 2) an assassin's bullet, 3) a French bombing raid, 4) a Red purge. The announcers who speak in Ho's name are impostors...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...
...village secretary, also on the list, railed at the Italian mainland press for its sensational scare stories on the Orgo-solo killings. "It's high time to stop telling fairy tales. People shoot and kill in Milan too," he scolded. A bullet through the head put a stop to his complaints...