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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucky & the Duce. The Mafia's beginnings trace to the 11th century, when the conquering Norman Count Roger I swept in, parceled out the island's hilly uplands to his barons, who in turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid...
...clock behind the electrically locked steel door of a special laboratory at Tan Son Nhut comparing pictures of the same minute areas, looking for the subtle changes that spell V.C. They are experts at their work. "I've seen them stretch film right across the room and then count the trees from a prominent river bend in order to pinpoint an area," says Major William L. Musladin, the Recce Tech's operations officer...
Cold Pop & "Snivel." Feddersen's real coup in Viet Nam was the establishment of a private, self-contained, ship-to-site supply route-an exercise that by his count took 17 steps. First he sounded out a Saigon source who, for twelve cases of C rations, revealed the whereabouts of a warehouse that needed 100 shipping pallets. To get the pallets, Feddersen traded surplus steel cargo boxes (bummed from the Army) for enough lumber and nails to build 200 pallets. Another army company built the pallets for Feddersen, keeping 100 of them as payment. Feddersen then gave...
...backing from stronger Consolidated, it will be able to explore such fields as television, books, magazines and music publishing. Under the Cummings system of decentralized management, moreover, United's old team will continue to run the motion-picture business. All Cummings will have to do, he hopes, is count the earnings and perhaps look at a movie once in a while...
...live beyond its means. Only the $1 billion a year that foreign investors put into the Canadian economy, mostly from the U.S., prevents Canada's persistent balance-of-payments deficit from undermining its currency. Even so, the figures can seem understandably alarming to a Canadian nationalist. At last count, Americans had more than $25 billion invested in Canada, a third of all U.S. private investment abroad. U.S. firms not only operate some 1,500 major subsidiaries in Canada, but control 46% of the country's manufacturing, 52% of its mining and smelting, 62% of its petroleum...