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Even so, this demographic group is often difficult to reach. Many elderly people are reluctant to discuss their intimate life with strangers. "A lot of people were taught that you don't air your dirty laundry," says John Gargotta, supervisor for the Senior HIV Intervention Project, an AIDS advocacy group. Most troubling, though, is that doctors often fail to consider HIV as a possible illness among their senior patients. As a result, the elderly are often misdiagnosed. Also, AIDS symptoms like dementia and weight loss can mimic the ravages of old age. "So there is a higher prevalence of people...
...Second Ward. The address, after Fifteenth Street was renamed in 1949: 716-718 Truman Road. But things had never been the same since the morning of April 6, 1950, when the bullet-riddled bodies of Gangster Charlie Binaggio, boss of the district, and his chief henchman, Charles Gargotta, were found there. At party meetings, somebody was always pointing out exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where Gargotta lay, a few steps away. This had a quieting effect on the enthusiasm of present and prospective members of the club. Last...
...Kansas City the motive for last month's assassination of Mobster Charles Gargotta was made a little clearer: Gargotta had squealed. Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury...
...Binaggio-Gargotta gang, a potent force in Jackson County's corrupt Democratic political machine, had also operated, said the grand jury, a Kansas City gambling ring which had grossed as much as $34,500,000 a year. Its gambling enterprises included dice and card games ($19 million), numbers racket ($3,500,000), bookmaking on horse racing, baseball, football ($12 million). Among the Binaggio-Gargotta partners in the biggest crap game in Kansas City, said the grand jury, were Jackson County's Superintendent of Buildings Robert S. Greene, at week's end still on the job, and Assistant...
...boys lay in state in true gangster tradition. Undertaker Pete Lapetina supplied two solid copper 900-lb. caskets that cost $1,500 apiece. The crowd that came to see the mortal remains of Kansas City's murdered Northside boss, Charley Binaggio, and his gun-toting henchman, Charles Gargotta, was bigger than the funeral home's large "chapel" could accommodate. Each body was laid to rest with a Requiem Mass...