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Even though Harvard hosts its share of interschool musical gatherings, no one could have mistaken Saturday's concert for a standard Harvard a canella...
...tawdry glitz of traditional gambling towns. To prevent the seediness and crime that often accompany casino gambling, Iowa legislators have capped wagers at $5, and Fort Madison's planning and zoning board is drafting a new ordinance to ban neon signs. "This is a family affair," says Dick Canella, a member of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission...
...Canella had tried to sell garbage, milk, laundry contracts. The dairy to which he gave the milk concession paid him 2% of its gross receipts. He had told Carl Mosk, owner of the post barber shop, that Mosk was making too much money and he "was going to have a cut off it or throw [Mosk] off the field...
When he testified that his eldest son was killed during the Normandy invasion, the colonel had burst into tears. His other son had just departed for the Pacific theater. Both had graduated from West Point. Canella started his Army career 27 years ago, after ROTC at the University of Iowa, had less than four years to go to honorable retirement...
...verdict: "Guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Government of the U.S. . . ." which carries a maximum sentence of $10,000 fine, two years in prison. When he heard the verdict, Joe Canella wheeled without a word, sat down beside his wife, dropped his head in his hands...