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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bust up what the Queens D.A. called a meeting even "bigger than Apalachin" of top Cosa Nostra hoodlums from New York, Florida and Louisiana. It did look like a summit at that: Santo ("Louis Santos") Trafficante, 51, boss of Cuba's pre-Castro gambling, Thomas ("Tommy Ryan") Eboli, 55, running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1966 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

VERDI: DON CARLO (London; 4 LPs). The usual cuts have been restored and all five acts are here, sung by an assemblage of stars: Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Grace Bumbry. Their voices often outshine their characterizations (though Bumbry is good as Eboli and Ghiaurov as Philip), and the solos are stronger than the ensembles. Conductor Georg Solti generally keeps rein on the sprawling tragedy, which unfolds with dark grandeur and erupts with fiery excitement in the auto da fe in the great Spanish square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 27, 1966 | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Actually it was a fast not a feast that brought Gassman, Novelist Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, poets, folk singers and droves of journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Waiting Is a Way of Life | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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