Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amateur" hockey in Italy as one of the two foreign players allowed each team. In 1975 he recorded the lowest goals against average in Italy (hey, it may not be much, but it is something you can tell your grandchildren) while leading the S.G. Cortina Doria Club to the Italian ice hockey championship. Bertagna returned to the states last year to play for a team in Wisconsin while attending Marquette's School of Journalism. But the rough and tumble semi-pro existence, complete with 12-hour bus rides, booster clubs and other low life proved too seamy for Bertagna...
...forced Reilly to confess he killed his mother. The illegitimate son's allegedly stormy relationship with his mother was named as the motive. Connery goes beyond outlining the skeletal facts of the case, focusing on how Falls Village reacted to the case. Two families--one Jewish and the other Italian--virtually adopted Reilly after the murder, mortgaging their homes to provide bail money and hiring him to babysit for their children in order to demonstrate their confidence in his innocence...
That last subject brought on an unseemly little squabble between the Kremlin and Santiago Carrillo, 62, leader of the Spanish Communist Party. Carrillo complained that he had been barred, at the last minute, from addressing the gathering. Like Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo had planned to defend his party's independence from Moscow. But no sooner had he submitted the speech to the translators, said Carrillo, than the Russians changed their minds and asked him if he would like to deliver it at a factory instead. Carrillo declined...
...students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years ago, after an older facility burned, it cost more than $16 million?the most money the town had ever spent on anything. Medford's 60,300 residents, many of them blue-collar families of Italian and Irish descent, did not mind...
...Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa...