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...most maddening bureaucracy. He points out that his city has almost ten times as many violent crimes as London (63,412 v. 7,302 last year), despite the British capital's edge in population. The big city has the unique distinction of harboring five of the 24 Cosa Nostra families and most of the nation's narcotics addicts. Almost alone, however, it has escaped major riots since...
...Viet Nam include such articulate religious leaders as Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert Lucey of San Antonio. But the protesters are well organized; one dissenter, the Rev. Martin Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School, smilingly classifies them as the church's "leading editorial, ministerial, theological and professional Cosa Nostra." Thus as long as the war is unresolved, clerical protest will doubtless continue. Next week, for example, when Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. is arraigned on a charge of conspiring to counsel young men to evade the draft, antiwar clergymen will conduct protest services at which they plan...
Author Ernest Hemingway used to pour himself into his letters-and never with less inhibition than when writing to a young Italian woman named Adriana Ivancich in the early 1950s. "Miss Mary always regarded how I felt about you as a cosa sagrada [sacred thing]," the novelist wrote. "It was something that struck me like lightning." Now the London auction house of Christie's has announced that it will sell 65 of Papa's letters to Adriana, a Milanese countess and the self-proclaimed heroine of Across the River and Into the Trees. Miss Mary, clinging...
COUSY COZY WITH COSA? headlined the impish New York Daily News, and the thought alone was enough to appall the millions who have admired Bob Cousy, 39, onetime basketball superstar with the Boston Celtics and now coach at Boston College. The question arose from an article in LIFE tying Cousy to a Springfield, Mass., saloon owner and syndicate gambler named Andrew Pradella. In an emotional, 70-minute press conference, Cousy choked and sobbed as he admitted that he had known Pradella well for 13 years, had played golf with him and seen him socially. He had learned for the first...
...Grand Jury charged Gennaro J. Angiulo, a dapper Boston real estate operator, and the man police say is the Cosa Nostra chief in this state, as being the one who ordered DiSeglio's slaying. The grim Grand Jury document charged that Angiulo did "incite, procure, aid counsel, and hire" three other men to assault, beat and kill DiSeglio...