Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Jimmy Carter allowed the ban on American travel to Cuba to lapse last March, no one was happier than cigar aficionados. They had been deprived - legally, at least - of the pleasures of Cuban stogies since 1962, when the embargo on trade with Fidel Castro's island was imposed. A smoker is now free to ask a Cuba-bound traveler: "Hey, going to Havana? Pick me up a couple of boxes of Montecristos." But lately many Americans returning to the U.S. from points outside Cuba laden with Havana's best have been rudely awakened by customs inspectors...
...fuzzy hair and a New York accent sitting in his room playing poker with the people from down the hall. The kid was wearing a blue corduroy vest and a T-shirt from his neighborhood volunteer fire department, and he was drunk enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without hating it. To Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while...
...Chunky, balding Carmine Galante, 67, who has spent nearly half his life in prison for bootlegging, gambling, narcotics trafficking, extortion, assault and homicide. Known to associates as "Lillo" and "the Cigar," he has an unrivaled reputation for ruthlessness. During his latest term in prison, 15 years at Lewisburg federal penitentiary, even the guards feared him. Says a Mafia defector: "If you don't jump when he says to, there's no second chance." Comparing Galante with Gambino, New York Mafia Expert Salerno says: "If someone got out of line, Gambino would say, 'Lean on him a little,' and then...
...wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville displays primary-hued portraits of archetypal Wisconsinites: a blue-faced farmer, a crimson-haired girl, a gray-and-white-faced iron miner, a green-visaged businessman chomping a blue cigar...
...right mount, but only if he had the right mount." Goodman considered his cigar. "Don't take this wrong, but right now Stevie Cauthen don't need any Derby...