Word: alessio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naclerio laid down a suicide squeeze bunt, which McOsker fielded and pegged to first for one out. One run in but Don Troyan never stopped running from second, and first-bagger Mark Bingham's throw came high and late to home plate. Catcher Chuck Marshall nailed Ed D'Alessio (he'd been on first) trying to sneak into third, ending an incredible play and an incredible inning...
...witness the rise of cities like San Diego, into which the Navy and the Marines pour $700 million each year in payrolls alone and the government feeds $1 billion annually into the local aerospace industry and $100 million into ship-building. The leading citizens of San Diego include John Alessio, a former bookmaker turned racetrack operator and C. Arnholt Smith, a highlevel con man chosen "Mr. San Diego of the Century" by the local paper. Smith used the money from his bank, U.S. National, to run deals with organized crime in California, taking a healthy chunk out to support himself...
...your story about the charges brought against John and Angelo Alessio, you write about their prison as "fun" [Dec. 25]. After spending 25 consecutive weekends at the Lompoc Correctional Facility as a visitor, I disagree. While trying to be as objective as possible, I have seen two fine, compassionate individuals (my father and my Uncle John) surfer mentally and physically as much, if not more than any other person in the prison, because of the "pressures" of the prison system, the U.S. Government and the press. By your own admission Lompoc is a "minimum security camp" designed for nonviolent inmates...
LAWRENCE R. ALESSIO San Diego...
...Angelo once went hunting with one of the guards. The indictment says further that both brothers were often chauffeured out of the camp by a prison official for unauthorized visits to motels, where they conducted business and visited for hours with their girl friends. On other occasions the brothers Alessio are also said to have entertained women in a room off the camp's chapel, where the rites were anything but religious. The high jinks ended after an inmate, rankled by Angelo's attempts to woo his daughter, ratted on them...