Word: bosses
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...movie mumble about the meaning of life and athletics. Becker would have been better letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Instead he lets the various characters take stabs at his nihilist theme, rendering it ridiculous. Louden brings up the meaning of life in English class. His boss at work throws around his philosophical views. Even a fellow wrestler does some moralizing...
...Staten Island home of Aniello Dellacroce, 70, saw the longtime underboss of the Gambino family moving normally about the residence. But when agents arrived to arrest him, Dellacroce claimed to be sick and was taken to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, 72, boss of the Lucchese family, who had anticipated his imminent arrest and checked in earlier, claiming to be suffering from chest pains. Philip ("Rusty") Rastelli, 67, the Bonanno family don, complained in court that he too felt chest pains and was rushed to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where doctors found him well enough...
This last charge focuses largely on Anthony ("Fat Tony") Salerno, 73, boss of the Genovese family, whose health could also become an issue. His Manhattan celebrity lawyer, Roy Cohn, expressed outrage when Giuliani said Salerno suffered only from obesity, and had been on "fat farms." Snapped Cohn: "That's not true. Mr. Salerno suffers from hypertension. He had three strokes. He walks with a cane. He has heart trouble." Before they grapple with more serious matters, lawyers on both sides apparently will have to answer a preliminary question: "How sick...
...schemes for S.D.I. would require nuclear explosions in order to work (see following story). While Reagan takes seriously the goal of a nuclear-free world, most members of his Government still do not. "It's there in our rhetoric because the President wants it there, and he's the boss," says a Pentagon official who is an advocate of Star Wars but not a believer in the elimination of nuclear weapons. "We're worried not so much about how to get from here to that pie in the sky, but how to get from here to the 21st century...
...would appear last Friday to deliver an address to his Moscow constituents. The occasion was the eve of national elections for members of the Supreme Soviets, the nominal legislative bodies of the 15 Soviet republics. Instead, the assembled delegates and a national television audience were told by Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 70, that Chernenko would not attend the meeting "on the recommendation of his doctors." It was the first formal acknowledgment to the Soviet people that Chernenko has health problems...