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...Communist. Later Chambers, a self-admitted former Communist spy, added that Hiss had passed State Department documents to the Communist underground in the 1930s. Hiss vigorously denied the accusations, but after two trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts call for a different interpretation: Hiss...
...Carmine Galente, 66, nicknamed "Lillo" and "the Cigar." Since getting out of Lewisburg federal penitentiary in 1974, after serving a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking, Galente has controlled the remnants of the Joseph Bonanno family in New York. Says one Mafia source: "Lillo would shoot you in church during high Mass." Galente, it is said, had no respect for Gambino because the latter "never broke an egg in his life." Unverified Mob talk last week went so far as to suggest that Galente ordered his spies within the Gambino family to persuade the capo di tutti capi to take...
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY (3,000 students; Lewisburg, Pa.). Dennis O'Brien, 45, a Hegelian philosopher by training (degrees from Yale and the University of Chicago) and most recently dean of the faculty of Middlebury College, was told by a fellow administrator that he would spend two-thirds of his time off campus raising money. He would like to lower that to one-third. Says he: "To be a salesman for Bucknell, I'm going to have to spend enough time on campus to be knowledgeable about my product." To raise the faculty's appreciation of Bucknell...
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