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Protecting People. Much of the recorded conversation centered on the fine points of murder, and it was clear that, in the underworld, neatness counts. The 1951 gunning down of Willie Moretti in a Cliffside Park, N.J., restaurant was distasteful to Angelo DeCarlo, who had a better idea: "Now like you got four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel...
Another time, DeCarlo told of the stylish dispatching of a cooperative victim named Itchie: "I said, 'You gotta go, why not let me hit you right in the heart and you won't feel a thing?' He said, Tm innocent, Ray, but if you've got to do it . . .' So I hit him in the heart and it went right through him." Some victims were less cooperative, such as the one many years ago described by Anthony Boiardo, son of Ruggiero ("the Boot") Boiardo: "The Boot hit him with a hammer. The guy goes down...
...Robbers. The mobsters also traded advice about corrupting police and businessmen. DeCavalcante: "You know, Tony, 30 or 35 years ago, if a [obscenity] was even seen talking to a cop they looked to hit him the next day. They figured he must be doing business with the cop." DeCarlo: "Today, if you don't meet them and pay them, you can't operate." Another time, Gaetano ("Corky") Vastola explained how to set up a dummy union: "When I sit down with the boss [management], I tell him how much it's gonna cost him in welfare, hospitalization...
...anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller and Economist Robert Theobald, DeCarlo had been invited to address the assembly. "It was the easiest speech I ever gave," he says. In fact, he could not get a word in edgewise...
...Time for Craft. At the end of the conference, the bewildered editors agreed they had not learned very much about newspapers, though they certainly had not been bored. DeCarlo, for one, had had his fill. "These kids don't appreciate the fact that it takes time to develop craft," he says. "They want all the answers right away. I went prepared to be angry or sympathetic toward them. I came away rather sad." The conference had been supported in part by the Washington Post and Newsweek, which together had contributed $15,000. Whether the USSPA will find it easy...