Word: capo
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...present turmoil is centered in New York City, where ex-Mafia Executioner Dellacroce is struggling with Drug King Carmine Galante over leadership of the city's five crime clans. Mafiosi from coast to coast will look on the winner as the don with the most "respect," the capo di tutti capi (translation: boss of bosses); in a word, the Godfather. The loser may wind up dead...
...death last fall of New York Don Carlo Gambino, who as capo di tutti capi had brought a measure of peace to the nation's Mafia families through guile, diplomacy and strong-arm discipline. His elaborate funeral marked the end of an era, for he was the last of the graybeard Godfathers who dominated the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s. The others are either in their graves or living in expensive Sunbelt retirement homes in Florida, Arizona and Palm Springs, Calif...
...because he controls the most men and rackets. He may not get his hand kissed as often as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino did in the Godfather films, but he is first among equals. Since Gambino's death, two New York dons have been competing for his crown as capo di tutti capi. They...
When Carlo Gambino died last October at 74, practically every cop, crook and crime reporter in the country wondered who would replace him as the new capo di tutti capi, the boss of all bosses -in other words, the Godfather. Last week, a rash of stories in the New York press-the Times, the Daily News and New York magazine-crowned a new Godfather: longtime Racketeer Carmine Galante...
...I.L.A. chiefs: William E. Boyle of Miami and Anthony Scotto of Brooklyn. A polished and urbane operator, Scotto is something of an aristocrat in the union, having visited the White House during the Lyndon Johnson era. Eight years ago, the Justice Department identified Scotto as a Mafia capo (captain)-a charge that Scotto has steadfastly denied...