Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joe Valachi, the twelve days of Christmas always turned up 13. "I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking," he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. "But all I would get on Christmas was having my father try and give me a glass of whisky." So, as any child psychologist might have predicted, Joe joined the Cosa Nostra, muscled his way up through the ranks and then, in a long-running 1963 TV series that might have been called 1,000 Days with Bobby Kennedy, transferred his allegiance to the Irish Mafia...
These days, Joe, 62, has his stocking filled without ever hanging it. For, unlike most axed network heroes, he has a lifetime contract. Under a life sentence for killing a fellow inmate at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1962, Valachi now resides in a fourth-floor, 25-ft. by 50-ft. chamber known as "the penthouse," a District of Columbia jail cell that boasts a well-stocked refrigerator, television, and-as a chastening reminder of the 32 murders in which the Justice Department estimates he took part-an electric hot plate. The Government feels obliged to protect Valachi because...
...Cosa Nostra boys, who would like to put a big dent in Joe, so far have had to be content with advertising a $100,000 price on his head. That price may go higher. Last week the Justice Department announced that it had offered Valachi's memoirs, entitled The Real Thing, to a dozen U.S. and European publishers. Valachi was asked to write his life's story on the chance that he might recall some forgotten tidbits of information. No luck. Rather than junk the monumental tome, federal officials decided to waive the rule against federal prisoners writing...
...Anderson is only 6 ft. 4 in., but he can jump to a height of 12 ft., has averaged 14 rebounds a game so far this year). And they compensate for their lack of height with a go-go game designed to rattle bigger, slower opponents. On defense, St. Joe's favorite tactic is the "zone press"-a full-court, blanket defense described by one opposition player as "like running into a windmill." The idea, says Ramsay, "is to stop the man who is advancing the ball on the dribble and cut off the passing outlets...
...Method. On offense, St. Joe's relies mainly on a pro-style fast break, with Guard Matt Guokas acting as "the quarterback"-taking the ball up the center of the court and passing off to one of his two forwards for the shot. Guokas, says Coach Dolph Schayes of the pro Philadelphia Warriors, "could play for me right now." Ramsay's only complaint is that Matt, who is the best shot as well as the best playmaker on the team, is inclined to pass off too often. There's a method. So far this season, Guokas...