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Some Boone's Farm instead? Maybe a bit more class with Andre Cold Duck? Ripple, Thunderbird, Madria Madria Sangria, Tyrolia, Carlo Rossi, Red Mountain or Josef Steuben...
...hardly been tamped down on the grave of Mafia King Carlo Gambino last week when a motel near New York's J.F.K. Airport was the scene of an extraordinary meeting. Packed into the basement room 100 strong were the capos (captains), consiglieres (counselors), under bosses and bosses of the five New York Mafia clans that Gambino had ruled directly. Attending, too, were some honored guests from afar; for it was the patient Don Carlo who had maintained order among the 26 families of the national Mafia combine. His word was taken as final judgment on their affairs and squabbles...
...meeting was quiet, and the conferees moved with diplomatic caution. Well they might; for according to federal officials, there are only three serious contenders for what Don Carlo left behind, and all have frightening reputations. The unholy trio...
...Died. Carlo ("Don Carlo") Gambino, 74, chief of New York City's most powerful Mafia family; in his sleep; in Massapequa, N.Y. The Sicilian-born Gambino came to the U.S. as a stowaway at the age of 19. He assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
...Ford LTD is as big as ever, and a new, luxurious 1977 Continental Mark V is as long (but not as heavy) as its predecessor. Thunderbird, however, is 10 in. shorter this time to compete with the snazzy intermediate Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Chrysler Cordoba. A new LTD II replaces the Ford Torino in the intermediate camp, where cars sell for less than GM's barely larger full-size cars, in the hope of winning over former GM drivers...