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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solitary, Lillo eats alone, exercises under guard in isolated areas and is kept away from other convicts. Even so, he has developed a bad case of the shakes. He is suspicious of his guards and does not even dare turn for comfort to the prison chaplain. One reason is omerta, the Mafia oath of silence. Another is the fact that Dellacroce, in one of his favorite disguises, likes to don a clerical collar and go about as "Father O'Neill" (a play on a common mispronunciation of his first name). Lillo has no yearning for the last rites, least...
...news. One night in October, three heavily armed men, dressed in dark blue jumpsuits and wearing black ski masks and gloves, started shooting through the door of a home in Richmond, Calif. The occupant, a black woman named Mary Matthews, 56, fired back with the .38-cal. revolver she kept by her bed. One man fell, killed by a burst of machine-gun fire-from behind. The two others fled. The dead man turned out to be a Panther...
...live up to the trade agreement that was concluded with the U.S. last January. That pact pledged Japan to cut tariff walls and quotas, with the aim of bringing U.S.-Japanese trade back into balance by 1980. But there have been few signs that the promises are being kept, and trade hassles with the Japanese are still regularly in the headlines (last week's concerned Japanese import quotas on American beef and oranges...
...apprehension is not whether we're going to get a 66 share in the Nielsens again. Based on the original run and this fall's rerun, we know there is still a great deal of interest in the story. The real question for us is: Have we kept up the standards we set last time...
...Having finally broken the bonds of propriety, I, like a proper Victorian gentleman, reserved my screwing for sluts and kept my true loves on a pedestal...