Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his brobdingnagian frame (6 ft. 7 in., 240 lbs.), his ever present cigar and his gravelly bass voice, Paul Volcker is a man who likes to keep a low profile, to perform his financial wizardry as a bureaucratic technician rather than as a public figure. But such behind-the-scenes machinations have their frustrations. One night, after an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, Volcker was so exasperated with his colleagues that he strode down to the Tivoli Gardens and proceeded to throw wooden balls in a booth full of china plates until he had smashed away his tension...
Several thousand feet above a bleak patch of western Utah, a 20-ft. long, cigar-shaped drone dropped from a B-52 bomber, spread its stubby wings and began whipping around an oval course 100 miles long and 30 miles wide at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. So last Tuesday began the great flyoff to pick the first U.S. air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead some 1,350 nautical miles and delivering it on target with near pinpoint accuracy. The weapon is designed to boost the nation's atomic punch...
...bespectacled Galante, nicknamed "Lillo" or "Cigar," looked more like a grandfather than a godfather. Nonetheless, a Mafia source once told TIME: "Lillo would shoot you in church during High Mass." Galante spent almost half of his life behind bars, starting at ten when he was sent to reform school as an incorrigible delinquent. At 17 he was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for assault. By 1952 he had become a high-ranking enforcer for Bonnano. Because Galante spoke French, Spanish and several Italian dialects, he often acted as the family's emissary in overseas assignments to arrange multimillion-dollar...
...feet from the table, they opened fire with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. In a litter of rolls, half-eaten salad and .45-cal. shells sprawled the body of short, balding Carmine Galante, 69, shot in the left eye and chest, his teeth still clenching his familiar black cigar. Galante was one of the Mafia's most powerful and feared bosses. Killed with him were a bodyguard, Leonardo Coppola, 40, and Turano, reputedly an adviser to Galante's crime family. The restaurant owner's son John, 17, was wounded. The execution had been carefully...
...sporty little foreign job that costs $1,000 and wrings 1,721 miles out of a gallon of gas? The numbers sound preposterous, but they are the vital statistics of a tiny, cigar-shaped one-man Dutch "car" that traveled a test track in eastern Holland last week to win a sexy sobriquet: the world's most economical gasoline-fueled auto...