Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eboli had worked in the rackets for at least 40 years, mainly in New York's Greenwich Village. Although long considered too rash for high command, he was once summoned to his native Italy to receive the personal praise of his deported boss, Lucky Luciano, for jumping into a Madison Square Garden ring and slugging the referee after one of his fighters, Rocky Castellani, was beaten. He climbed steadily in the family of Luciano's successor, Vito Genovese, partly by shooting straight. He reportedly carried out a contract in 1962 to gun down Anthony Strollo, another rising Genovese...
Theories run that computers at Koka command radar-automated bombing along the Ho Chi Minh trail. In this top secret weapons system a master computer sets a bomber's course and releases the plane's ordinance automatically to hit a set of radar coordinates...
Directing TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...
While the balloting for McGovern dragged on, Gart left his command post to contact some of his "old sources" on the convention floor. In this "new" convention, old sources were not as common as they used to be, but Gart was able to return with a secret "short list" of vice-presidential candidates: U.A.W.'s Leonard Woodcock, Senators Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Promptly, a reporter and photographer were dispatched to cover each of these three vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern...
...Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quang Tri, the provincial capital which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the east had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city...