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...powerful leader of a Mafia family than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western, twice had to be evacuated because of bomb threats. In Los Angeles, police told...
...clamshell pastry-and with the judicious eye of a diner selecting one from Column A and one from Column B. In the vegetable carving room, where chefs sculpted 6-ft. radishes, turnips, carrots and sugar beets into decorative flowers, she picked up a radish carnation, placed it on the chest of a beaming chef and burbled: "It's pretty enough to wear...
...John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after Bloody Sunday and three days after Bloody Tuesday, indicated that Ulster's cycle of violence was speeding up again...
...each of the three top floors occupied by the company, there are large open spaces divided into "work stations" by tall green plants, file cabinets and movable pieces of mahogany furniture called TRMs (Task Response Modules). Each TRM contains a closet, a chest of drawers, a bookcase and a built-in desk. In the larger work areas allotted to executives there are such traditional extras as upholstered chairs and round or square oaken tables...
...take a job as a shipping clerk," he remembers sarcastically. "Isn't that great? Some society . . ." He pauses, folding powerful arms in front of his chest. "Bookkeeping is my thing. I'd like to be a C.P.A. some...