Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government also moved on another front last week. The day before Addonizio went to court, another federal grand jury handed up indictments against Mafia Kingpin Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De Cavalcante and 54 others. Charged with operating an interstate numbers game that grossed $20 million a year, all face penalties of $10,000 and five years' imprisonment. Four, including De Cavalcante's "chief of staff," Alessio Barrasso, face additional fines of $10,000 or 20-year sentences for extortion...
Harvard was the New England grid kingpin for the first two weeks of the season. but fell to fourth after its 13-10 loss to Boston University. This week the tables were turned with Harvard advancing, while B.U. fell to fourth after giving up its undefeated record on a 14-9 loss to Massachusetts...
...jump but flow off the pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...
...entered the War on Poverty draft legislation not out of considerations of big city politics, but rather as a device to ensure that community action funds would reach the black poor in the South rather than their white overlords. whatever its origins, however, maximum feasible participation soon became the kingpin of a federal intervention in hundreds of American cities which was more or less effectively setting up centers of urban political power removed from City Hall...
...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...