Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors were presumably also concerned about the upsurge in murderous violence within the Mob. En route to New York, Fratianno stopped off to visit Mob friends in Cleveland. That same day, John Nardi, 61, who was feuding with Young Turks in that city, was torn apart by a bomb as he started his car. In addition, there have been the 20 or more Mob-connected murders by hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols (TIME, April 18). FBI investigators now believe that there are separate killers deployed by hoodlums in Chicago and by the Genovese family...
...photocopied the contents. This was all part of an unorthodox IRS investigation known as Project Haven, which was aimed at Caribbean financial high jinks. One of the alleged depositors, listed in the copied documents as having a $100,000 account, was a self-described retired investor, Jack Payner, of Cleveland. He was subsequently indicted on a charge of having falsely sworn on his 1972 tax return that he had no foreign bank account. Now U.S. District Judge John M. Manos of Cleveland has thrown out the evidence against Payner-and possibly the evidence against dozens of other defendants involved...
...turn loose African athletes who have been chasing, say, cheetahs, they will rewrite the record books. It's not because they're black but what they've been doing." Other athletes see explanations in the simple force of social pressure. In track, says Paul Warfield, the Cleveland Browns wide receiver, "I found just as many talented white performers with great speed or jumping ability as I did blacks. Yet in professional football, there seems to be an imbalance. For the white athlete, the alternatives have obviously been greater. He doesn't have to channel...
Live Lobsters. He had been running ball clubs since the 1930s, building, inventing, promoting, hustling in unpretentious, wholly individualistic ways. He devised a moveable fence in Milwaukee, which helped home-team hitters, and he put fireworks in the Cleveland Scoreboard to salute home-team home runs. He sent a midget to bat in St. Louis, and offered live lobsters as gate prizes to his fans. Critics said he turned baseball into a circus. Replied Veeck: Was there anything wrong with the circus...
...point, in Wellesley, Berkeley thought about dropping out again, although he knew that would condemn him to another year of frustration. But he kept going. Cleveland Circle came, and the Citgo sign appeared and, he recalled, the next couple of miles were the toughest. As he told his story, it was clear he felt he had reached his "unattainable goal," and could shrug off the fatigue and pain and enjoy his victory...