Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examine the case and to decide on the guilt or innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti. His appointees were Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, president Samuel W. Stratton of MIT and Robert Grant, a retired probate judge. It was up to them to decide whether the two Italian anarchists should live or die. By this time it was July. I had decided that Harvard was the place to be that summer, so I stayed on as a University guide...
...entire world should applaud the Italian government for its stand against terrorist demands. Giving in only paves the way for more terrorism...
...height ceilings, to respond to any size art. For the show of mid-century Americans called "Subjects of the Artist" (one of six exhibitions opening this week), David Smith's Voltri sculptures are displayed in a room that provides witty drama: they are ranked on steps imitative of the Italian amphitheater at Spoleto where they were first shown...
DIED. Joseph A. Colombo Sr., 54, Brooklyn Mafia chieftain who became the outspoken founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League; as a result of gunshot wounds suffered at a 1971 league rally in Manhattan; in Newburgh, N.Y. After a lackluster youth as a petty criminal in the underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them...
...widow, Oona, for several weeks, demanding at first $600,000 in ransom. Police tapped the calls through it all, and finally closed in on one of the robbers in a Lausanne phone booth. The idea for the grisly theft, the robbers admitted to the authorities, came from "reading about Italian kidnapings in the papers...