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...future Mafia shootouts. For the past three years, they have brought into the country, via Montreal, a number of young, hardened, reliable Sicilian gangsters called "greenhorns," or "greenies." Finally, Gambino opposed Mob involvement in the narcotics trade, but gangsters like Galente, despite his 15-year drug rap, favor...
...Yankees now. He manages the team. Before he could come back, however, he left as the scapegoat in the famous Copacabana incident of 1957. Some Yankees got in a brawl at a ritzy New York nightclub and Martin, the most expendable in the management's eyes, caught the rap. It was incidents like that which convinced fans the Yankees were a bunch of rich, cold stiffs. They got big salaries, the line went, World Series checks, and turned their backs on their old teammates...
...following unlikely but not entirely uninteresting proposition: that in 1946, in Istanbul, a young man destined to become a master international criminal murders a young woman in front of a friend who is destined to become a master Swiss detective. He does so in such a way that a rap cannot be pinned on him, but his former friend pursues him for three decades. Finally the detective maneuvers his ancient adversary into a situation where he must inevitably take the fall for one of the few crimes-oh irony of ironies-he did not commit...
Last Resort. That probably is an undeserved rap. What happened is that last fall Ford urged Levi and HEW Secretary David Mathews to explore alternatives. Under one idea that evolved, the Administration would press for legislation to: 1) mandate courts to order busing only as a last resort (they are now urged but not compelled to resort to busing only after alternatives have been tried); 2) provide federal funds to improve schools and encourage voluntary integration; and 3) set up a national council to mediate local disputes before they reach court judgment. Meanwhile, Solicitor General Robert Bork prepared an amicus...
...same time, more and more Italians seem to have persuaded themselves, often reluctantly, that the only way to deal with Italy's economic drift and political scandals is to rap the Christian Democrats with a Communist vote. In local and municipal elections last June, Italy's self-confident Communists won almost 34% of the vote, compared with just above 35% for the Christian Democrats. Since then, the Christian Democrats, though thoroughly aroused to their plight, scarcely seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions...