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...afternoon that Hoffa vanished, both Giacalone and Provenzano were on prominent display elsewhere. Tony Jack made an appearance in the steam rooms of the Southfield Athletic Club near Detroit, and Tony Pro hobnobbed with Teamsters at union locals in Hoboken...
...Poetry Board Editor: Alice C. van Buren '74 of Dunster House and Princeton, N.J., Prose Board Editor; Brian Bohn '74 of North House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Art Editor; Glenn M. Schwetz '73 of Eliot House and Wala Wala, Wash., Dionysus; A. Peter Fabry of Eliot House and Hoboken, N.J., Graduate Editor...
...famous personage, a son of our city, who not only never wished to Americanize his surname-clearly of Sicilian origin-but also one who on various occasions has displayed his regret that he has never been accorded a public homage in Italy." But what kind of homage for Hoboken-born Frank Sinatra (whose father was born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with flowers instead-by dedicating a Sinatra floral zone in the public gardens and giving Frank honorary...
...trains. Among the casualties were some that had become legendary-the Wabash Cannonball from St. Louis to Detroit, the Capitol Limited from Washington to Chicago, the Nancy Hanks II from Savannah to Atlanta. Dozens of other great trains, such as the Twentieth Century Limited and the Phoebe Snow between Hoboken, N.J., and Chicago, had already vanished. What remains of rail service may become better than ever, as Amtrak promises rather unconvincingly, but the special mythic quality has been lost on the wind with the vanished steamers...
...Defending the $47,000 cost of the electronic surveillance system. Police Captain Michael Court notes that "it would take three men to patrol that area over a 24-hour period. That's $30,000 a year, so in about 19 months we break even." The police force in Hoboken, N.J., plans to install a similar system by mid-June, and Sylvania reports that 50 other police departments have requested demonstrations. Thus the TV patrol may well appear in high-crime areas across the nation, peering through darkened stores and examining dark alleyways. To some, that prospect invites comparison...