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...Blood Feud. More ominously, the Gallo and Colombo gangs last week officially declared war. The two clans "went to the mattresses"-the Mob's term for consolidating forces in fortified hideouts, hauling in mattresses for a long siege and sleeping on them for the duration. It was the most bitter gang conflict in a decade, and could become the bloodiest campaign since the savage Castellammarese war* in 1930-31, when scores of Mafiosi killed off one another in the streets across the country...
...that their own methods were not producing enough lasting converts; Hoyt pointedly blamed his "watered-down Gospel." When he entered the Children of God, he took many of the Atlanta Jesus People with him. Linda Meissner, however, took far fewer of her Jesus People Army along-and indeed the feud between the mainstream Army (including Linda's husband John Salvesen) and her splinter group has scandalized Seattle's Jesus People...
...treatment and screenplay for The Boy Friend and negotiated the $2.4 million financing, but also knew every bar of the music, checked every detail of props, makeup, costumes, even hair styles. He escorted Twiggy to her hairdresser to check her haircut for The Boy Friend, later embarked on a feud with her and her bearded mentor and manager Justin de Villeneuve. Twiggy at first called the whole experience "a nightmare." but now that the "cooling off" period is about over, she speaks more cheerfully of those days: "He believed in me. Sure, he shouted at me a couple of times...
...Texas, Kennedy's candidacy would revive the feud between L.B.J. and Bobby Kennedy Democrats. In South Carolina, he would drive loyal conservative Democrats into the arms of Nixon again. In North Carolina, the old-line Dems like Terry Sanford would vote for him, but east Carolina residents would follow Wallace, and people in the Piedmont would return to Nixon. In short, Teddy would be wise to sit out the next election if his success depends on the South...
...duties as Congressman, he maintained control through his handpicked successor, Garofoli, Stanton would come to Cleveland every Monday morning and spend a couple of hours with Garofoli planning strategy for that night's Council meeting. Garofoli, whose eyes were already on the Mayor's job, kept up the running feud with Stokes. The situation became so bad that the Mayor and his Cabinet walked out of a Council meeting last spring and didn't return for a month. Stokes felt that Council was not according him the respect he deserved, and city business was placed in a state of suspended...