Word: golfo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawn between Sicilians and Neapolitans-a distinction that causes ill feeling even today. But Sicilians from one area also fought Sicilians from another area, going so far as to take Neapolitans as allies. A particularly bloody period in 1930-31 called the Castellammarese War (the town of Castellammare del Golfo was home to one of the factions) killed about 60 gangsters. Thus the factions agreed to unite behind the Mob's modern founding father, Salvatore Maranzano...
...fault. It was impossible for me to foresee these things." He has only three ambitions now. One is to move closer to his children in Palo Alto, Calif. The second is to visit once more his birthplace and the graves of his parents in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, home of so many American Mafiosi. The third, which he apparently does not tell young Hill about, is to return to power, and, like Napoleon at Elba, he still dreams of the day when he can march home and reclaim his Cosa Nostra family...
This is called Golf-O-Tron, price:$8,500. Five Golf-O-Tron centers are currently in operation in the U.S.,where players have a choice of five courses at $1.50-$5 an hour. Golf-O-Tron-which already has a competitor called Golfo-mat-is doing a brisk business abroad, especially in Japan, where golf, introduced by General MacArthur, is high in status and low on courses...
...Navy declared Golfo Nuevo a war area, out of bounds to airliners and ships, and blacked out the Puerto Madryn base. It sent intelligence agents on house-to-house searches ashore, put three destroyers, 18 warplanes, and some helicopters to patrolling the gulf itself, and lined up five warships at the seven-mile entrance, where the depth is only 60 ft. For top security, ships communicated with one another in the Guarani Indian dialect, spoken by Paraguayan naval cadets aboard the Argentine vessels for training...
...week's end, the Argentine navy officially announced that a "second unidentified submarine" had moved into Golfo Nuevo "with the apparent purpose of helping" its trapped and crippled sister...