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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a month, the FBI has been analyzing the notes. The early reviews are favorable: "It was a trove of Mafia intelligence," says one Arizona official. TIME has learned that the manuscript reflects Bonanno's scorn for the Mafia's current commissioners, scalawags who were mere car thieves and moonshiners when Bonanno and four others established the Mafia ruling commission in 1931. They are unworthy of association with a royal Bonanno, writes Cosa Nostra's foremost snob, who claims to have had an audience with a Pope and a handshake with President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not So Quietly Flows the Don | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Tarver is a former Louisiana state secretary of the Department of Urban and Community Affairs. He also has worked as the executive director of the Commission of Intergovernmental Relations in Louisiana.

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Graduate May Receive MPA Deanship | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

For the past four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Amway on a variety of charges that include fixing the retail prices that its independent salespeople could charge, allocating sales territories and misrepresenting the amount of money that distributors could earn. Last July an administrative-law judge in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Amway's Way | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

CBS dismissed Belson's finding as adding "nothing of consequence" to the continuing debate on the issue. In response to Federal Trade Commission pressure and nationwide lobbying by groups like Action for Children's Television (ACT), the networks have launched a series of special dramas for children and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Live with TV | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Dr. Mary I. Bunting, 68, geneticist, president of Radcliffe College (1960-72) and first female member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1964-65); and Dr. Clement A. Smith, 77, professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; both for the second time; in Cambridge, Mass.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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