Word: colombos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirteen hundred people were on hand to pay homage, as the engraved invitation explained, to Colombo's "undying devotion to the Italian-American people and all humanitarian causes...
...plate testimonial dinner on Long Island last week began with an invocation by Father Louis Gigante, a Bronx priest who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year: "Dear God, bless this food, bless this night, and God bless Joe Colombo and all the good deeds he has done...
...course, is Joseph Colombo Sr., guest of honor, league founder and, law enforcement officials insist, the head of one of New York's Mafia families. His testimonial had been moved up two days because on the original date Colombo had been scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence for perjury...
Permanently Grounded. In 1946, when the Elder Statesman Victor Emmanuel Orlando first heard the 26-year-old Colombo deliver a speech before the Constituent Assembly, he said: "Now there is a Colombo [dove, in Italian] that will fly." What with labor unrest and the upsurge in neo-Fascist rioting, this dove has enough problems to keep him from taking wing for a while. Still, there is a chance-an outside chance, admittedly-that for the first time since De Gasperi retired in 1953, Italy may at last have a Premier who is not permanently grounded...
...Colombo, who as Foreign Trade Minister wrote much of the Treaty of Rome that established the six-nation European Common Market, also favors speedy British admission. Eventually he hopes for political alliance among market members, along with the approaching common European currency. "Perhaps a United States of Europe by 1980 is too optimistic," he said, "but we will be far along on that road by then. We must, or Europe's importance in the world will come...