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...would be allowed to sell everything from fire-protection systems to computer terminals through telephone stores. The income from those activities and from the Yellow Pages will help hold down local phone rates, which analysts had expected to increase by perhaps one-third under the original agreement. Said Paul Gioia, chairman of the New York State public service commission: "Greene is sticking up for the little guys in this battle of the titans...
...nicknamed neighborhood men gather at Rose's Tavern for a glass of beer from the 7-ft. wooden cooler. Then they drift out back toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard-not to scare away burglars, but to illuminate a 3-ft.-high statue of the Blessed Virgin. It is all part...
Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...
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Things come to a head at a party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...