Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 20, somebody fired a shotgun at the Tucson home of Anthony Tisci, a son-in-law of Sam ("Momo") Giancana, commander of the 300-man Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...
...Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with grace...
Vellucci -- with an easy, dignified, and slightly plump grace that complements his sharp features and shock of graying hair, a distinctly Italian Cary Grant--has been here with the East Cambridge caucus from the beginning. And with the eight elderly ladies with pill-box hats, skirts that fall well below the knee, and Norman Rockwell faces who make up the majority of it, he has sat calmly through the agenda thus far, oblivious to the formal proceedings, talking quietly to the many people who come up to him, and smiling continuously at women all over the room...
...outcome of the meet was decided long before the final mile. But it was the last ascent of Van Cortlandt's legendary Cemetery Hill that produced the coup de grace...
Humphrey has felt all along that the dissidents on the near left at least would eventually rally to him. Eugene McCarthy still holds out, but others are falling into line. Some, like Ted Kennedy, have come with good grace, and others, like Ted Sorensen, with none. Sorensen urged votes for Humphrey as the candidate "least likely to sink us all." Antiwar demonstrators still heckle and curse the Vice President (they even booed Kennedy in Boston for appearing with Humphrey), but the foulmouthed fringe may prove more of an asset than a liability in the long...