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...Harvard women's cross-country taken is seeking out its turf in the Bronx. The Crimson yesterday won its second straight Hepsagotal title-in affect, the Ivy champion ship-in New York city's Van Cortlandt park...
...executions normally go unpunished. But the work of New York detectives and Bronx County prosecutors produced a conviction last week in the killing of a federal witness. The team did what the FBI and Justice Department had failed to do: show that Nat Masselli, 31, had been slain last year in an effort to impede a federal investigation into allegations that Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan had ties to organized crime...
...Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe of Donovan's activities as an executive of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nat worked for his father William, 56, a convicted hijacker who owned an excavating firm that had subcontracts with Donovan's firm. Testimony in the Bronx County trial showed that Salvatore Odierno, 68, and Phil Buono, 68, Mafia soldiers, had met Nat Masselli last August to talk him out of cooperating with Silverman...
...looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically tried to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
...After finishing tryouts for the ice-hockey team last week, Donald Spilky, 17, and four other students from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat...