Word: carmelo
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...began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
...last week was Verdi's Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations -Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as either of them were the two men posted on either side of the first gallery (the fifth tier). Antonio Carrara, 33, and Carmelo Alabisio, 76, can lay claim to being opera's most successful dispensers of professional applause...
...sequel was recounted early last week to Sicily's hushed Assembly by Deputy Carmelo Santalco: "About a week ago I was approached with offers to betray the [Christian Democratic] Party I have served for eleven years ... I referred the matter to the head of my party, who advised me to play out the game." His late-night visitors, said Santalco, were one of Milazzo's top aides, fast-rising Ludovico Corrao, 32, and a Communist henchman. In Santalco's room at Palermo's Hotel delle Palme, they offered to buy his Assembly vote and that...
...YORK, Oct. 31--Featherweight Champion Hogan Kid Bassey, a stubby warrior from Nigeria, dropped shifty Carmelo Costa twice on the way to an unanimous decision tonight in a non-title 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden. Bassey weighed 127, Costa...
Politesse. In Buffalo, after his lawyer cited his military service and launched into a plea for rehabilitation, Carmelo J. Giambra, 31, interrupted, thanked him, explained to the court, "I do not want any mercy" for his part in a $23,775 bank holdup, insisted that "the law must be served," stressed that "I am happy and glad to pay for my crime," after being rewarded for his candor with a 17-year sentence, said: "Thank you very much...