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...that he was there just to help. Few observers believe his intent was so benign. More probably, he wants to retake control of his old New York family-which his fellow mobsters pushed him out of twelve years ago, when he began to infringe on their turfs -and then grab Gambino's crown. Bonanno's forte is treachery-and innovation. He is credited with inventing the split-level coffin. Instead of leaving his victims for police to find, he would have them taken to a Brooklyn funeral home and put in the lower compartment of a coffin...
...incident took place at Nini's Corner store, where Pi Eta's unclads annually grab candy from shelves after coming from Lamont Library, where they attempt to take out a book. Yesterday there was a departure from the normal routine...
That is only one example of the kind of favor the maritime unions have been able to grab for themselves. In 1970 former President Richard Nixon signed the Merchant Marine Act, which provided federal subsidies for the construction of 300 new ships in U.S. yards within the next ten years. In 1974 the unions scored an even greater coup; they persuaded Congress to pass a bill that would require 30% of all U.S. petroleum imports to be carried in U.S. tankers by 1977. The bill was an especially important piece of revenge for the unions: they deeply resent...
...anguish, are peppered with McKuenesque dilemmas. Someone tells of passing a friend on the street without trading any greeting--each of them feared the other had looked through instead of at him. Someone else describes a dinner party where she wanted to "scratch out the women's eyes" and "grab the men's balls"--a lame evocation of hostility made even more hokey by the gratuitous vulgarity. While couples copulate with increasing fervor and come, for what can only be a choreographic reason, together, a choral voice-over ludicrously intones the entire series of Old Testament begattings...
...Think I'll grab this last copy of the Crimson...