Word: lercara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, unwanted in the U.S. and Cuba and banished from Rome as a criminal threat, arrived at last in his native town of Lercara Friddi, Sicily, only to leave it again for Naples after less than a day's stay and a warm kiss on each cheek from the mayor...
...Deadest Dump." After nine days, the police let Lucky go. They were unable to pin anything on him, but last week they handed him a foglio di via obbligatorio-a document compelling him to report within four days to the police at Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...
...prospect of even a short sojourn in Lercara Friddi was enough to make an active man short-tempered. Lucky roughed up photographers at the entrance to his apartment building. Said he: "In the States I know what I can do and what I can't. Over here it's different. They got laws I don't know anything about...
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