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According to police, the group performed efficiently, disposing of some 15 troublesome victims until in 1959 they were ordered to murder one of their own gang. They obeyed their instructions, but afterward they thought it over. If Profaci could eliminate one of them, what about the rest? The Gallos committed the unthinkable: they rebelled against their Mafia boss. Not only that, they kidnaped five Profaci henchmen, holding them captive until the boss agreed to give them a bigger piece of the action. The solemn agreement lasted until the hostages were released. Then a fierce three-year gang war broke...
...Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught the spirit. The grace of what marketmen ever afterward called their "parasols" has enchanted generations of Frenchmen...
...fleet at Tchesme. Later the Russians made a series of amphibious landings on the Ionian islands and even captured Corfu in 1799. "No, we are not guests in this sea," crowed Izvestia. "Many glorious victories of our people are connected with it." (Izvestia conveniently forgets, of course, that soon afterward the Russians gave up Corfu and were bottled up behind the Bosporus by the Crimean War.) The U.S. is equally insistent on its Mediterranean rights, which date back to Stephen Decatur's arrival in 1803 to fight the Barbary pirates...
...York-based religion reporter, was in San Francisco covering a meeting of Catholic bishops. While waiting out the closed-door sessions, Ostling took the opportunity to have a close look at Berkeley's colony of "Jesus Freaks." Our first major article on the movement appeared soon afterward. Continued exposure to the new genre convinced Ostling that there was much more to be said. Hence this week's cover story on the Jesus revolution...
...several of its members. Two weeks later, the November Action Coalition led a group of about 250 students on a noisy "tour" of the building. The following April, NAC sponsored a demonstration which entered the Center and broke up a meeting of its Visiting Committee. And a month afterward, another group organized by NAC held a "mill-in" on the CFIA's second floor...