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Weighing the Profits. In New York City, members of the Mafia's Colombo, Lucchese and Genovese families are muscling in on the rich pornocopia, bringing new money and organization to the fractionalized trade. Since the syndicate took over the two-bit peep-show machines, the grainy amateur films featuring fading strippers have been replaced by slick color productions with sound, stories and attractive young models. Each movie is twelve minutes long, but in most machines viewers must drop in a fresh quarter for every two-minute segment. The 69 peep-show emporiums in midtown Manhattan bring in an estimated...
...Reggie's rebellion spread and cut off virtually the entire southern fifth of the country, Premier Emilio Colombo ordered troops to cope with a civil disturbance for the first time since 1946. A force of 5,000 uniformed soldiers was moved into the area. For the second time in a tumultuous week, a Western government was compelled to call out its armed forces to face a gathering rebellion...
...Fascist era 27 years ago, the Italians have had a new government on the average of every 9.8 months. But now the pace is quickening. Government No. 32, which was headed by Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor, lasted a mere 100 days. Last week former Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, another Christian Democrat, had barely formed Government No. 33 before many Italian politicians were predicting that it would fall almost as fast...
Tired of the quarreling, Rumor resigned in early July. After nearly a month of futile negotiations to form a new government, President Giuseppi Saragat turned to Colombo, who is a highly regarded economist but nobody's idea of a forceful politician. To everyone's surprise, the scholarly bachelor formed a government that was virtually the same as the one at which Rumor had thrown up his hands. But by week's end Socialist leaders were hinting that Colombo might not last more than three or four months...
...busy session, the councillors approved a Vellucci resolution changing the name of Harvard Square again. Last March Vellucci had the Council change the name to Piazza Leprechano in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Yesterday, to honor Christopher Columbus the Council accepted Vellucci's resolution renaming it Piazza Christopho Colombo...