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...intended to mouth as a response. "I'm not barring you from the clubhouse, Young, because I don't want to stop you from making a living. But don't expect me to speak to you again." Martin looked up at his audience-me -as perhaps Cicero had looked up, practicing a peroration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Encountering the Yankees | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

Among the Chicago Mob's rising stars is James ("Turk") Torello, 46, a native of Cicero, Al Capone's old base. According to the FBI, Torello did so well as an executioner for Giancana that he was given several West Side bookmaking rings in the early 1960s. Moving swiftly into other neighborhoods, Torello now supervises all of the Outfit's gambling operations. He lives modestly in Cicero with his wife "Doodles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...falling into the all too easy vanity of writing a single new line." Paladión, in short, attached his name to the works of other authors, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and the original Latin rendering of De Divinatione. "And what Latin it was!" Domecq writes. "Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloodless Coup | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...school. The schools were not, by and large, free. Nor were they compulsory in the sense that every child in a certain area had to attend them. Some fortunate boys were educated in grammar schools with college in mind: they studied the Bible, Erasmus, Aesop, Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, Homer, Hesiod; Latin and Greek. Above all, there was what might be called a strongly moral education. Such an education for the colonists was by definition religious-God's will made known to the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Growing Up in America--Then and Now | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...campaign without well-defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '74: Democrats: Now the Morning After | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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