Word: konigsberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Konigsberg next met his boss, they hugged and kissed, and Konigsberg received an envelope stuffed with $15,000. Sinno also attended the friendly gathering. But within a few months, he became convinced that Provenzano was out to get him, too; he thereupon fled to the Midwest, where he hid under several aliases...
Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...
According to testimony at the trial, Provenzano in 1961 tapped Konigsberg, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Salvatore ("Big Sal") Sinno to kill a union rival, Anthony Castellito. They lured the victim to his own summer home in the Catskills, knocked him out with a lead-filled hose and strangled him with a rope. His body has never been found...
...stare on the flight of this sport, and thus in the vestibules of academe--where bannister-sliding should indeed have flourished--students trudge on from class to class. The more optimistic hoped at the beginning of the decade that in this university--where great minds had already solved the Konigsberg Bridge problem and Zeno's Paradox--scholars might by now have found a way to slide up bannisters. But no, with the steady evolution of Harvard College into Harvard trade school, formidable scholars have no time for the sliders but spend all their time assisting the less-daring into medical...
...Court has held, for example, that the justices themselves as public officials are not above the most extreme degree of criticism. The Kongisberg case was one where the lawyers charged that the members of the Supreme Court were part of the cold war machinery that was betraying America, and Konigsberg was denied membership in the bar because of that. The Justices of the Supreme Court said, "We are public officials just like others and what he is doing is exercising his free speech rights in criticising public officials." I don't think a public prosecutor is above a Supreme Court...