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...start Valachi's reliability as a witness was questionable. His notoriously bad memory required intensive drilling by Justice Department representatives, and in spite of his preparation he was able to make mistakes. For example, when he said that Robert Doyle of Stamford, Connecticut, was a member of the Cosa Nostra, one Robert Doyle of Stamford, a respectable businessman, received threatening telephone calls. The Robert Doyle Valachi referred to really lived in Hartford...
During his five days of Senate testimony, Valachi, if nothing else, enriched the language with his litany by enabling the Justice Department to compose a list of the nicknames of killers, thieves and pimps in Cosa Nostra. Among them...
Murder at the Gallop has other notable characters and one--Robert Morly as Hector--even proves worthy escort for Miss Marple. But Margaret Rutherford is a mountain of reassurance all by herself, and in an age of Cosa Nostra it is comforting to enter at least one world in which crime can never...
Lodge may have been forced to this extreme by the family's failure to show any serious intentions to reform. To imagine that mandarin President Diem will ever take the initiative in reforming himself, the palace clique, the police, and the army, is like thinking that the Cosa Nostra will voluntarily abandon organized crime...
...duration he might also outgrow his paranoid delusion that there exists a secret brotherhood among architects whose cosa nostra is the clever foisting of "cheap", "disfiguring", "sleazy", "hideous", "bad", "unsightly", "unbalanced", "ugly", "monstrous", and (finally) "unattractive" buildings upon the architecturally uneducated public among whom Mr. Weil is the example par excellence. K. Paul Zygas...