Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Racket. Accardo, arrogant in cafe society suit and dark sunglasses, refused last week to tell the U.S. Senate labor-management investigating committee anything about his high standard of living, or how he keeps it. Testifying under subpoena, he set the style for six other professional gangsters who uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government...
...there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust for 30 years before he came up with a modest gold strike, but instead of in vesting it in "pan ginney," he put his faith in Alaska and bought real estate in Fairbanks...
...holed for life. These guys come over there too, but they're so full of second-hand garbage they can't see what's real if they try. They're the night club crew. Ten minutes in Chartres, an hour in the Louvre, and all day in some sidewalk cafe (where they can see all the other Americans). They're the Lido boys, who travel first class and stay at the Ritz. The double-scotch-with-ice bunch that finds its Europe in a guide book. They take the tours and chat with friends, all cameras and golf hats...
...clear, sun-washed air of Greece, where the word democracy was first heard, has been ringing for two months with the campaign cries of politicians. In small cafeés through the countryside, customers have looked up from their timeless card games and eternal sipping of Turkish coffee and resin-flavored wine to make caustic or approving esthetic judgments on the rhetorical flourishes of candidates...
...came to the U.S. last summer to attend a year's course at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kans. Because of frequent leaves, arranged through his embassy in Washington, he has apparently remained innocent of the higher principles of military strategy, but his cafeé-society tactics have improved by the week...