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...best. He's recruited some experienced fencers to go with last year's young team, and , if he can harness the antics of his madcap fencers, there should be a lot of victories coming his way There are times, though, when you have to wonder what Vince Lombardi would have to say about the good-time philosophy that pervails among Edo's fencers. But I guess even Lombardi wouldn't knock success...
...Toomey and Lombardi are looking over their shoulders at six determined challengers, all of whom say they have a shot at one of the two contested seats. City Councillor and former Mayor Alfred Vellucci--well known at this end of Mass Ave for his frequent outbursts against the growing presence of Harvard and MIT-in Cambridge--is probably the strongest of the pack, but the other five candidates must also be reckoned with...
Vellucci, Toomey and Lombardi will be competing for the conservative vote, mostly centered in Wards One and Two. Amato and Blanc will probably divide the votes of young people and professionals in Wards Three and Four, making some inroads with the voters in the other two wards because of general dissatisfaction with incumbent politicians...
...Lombardi is the more vulnerable of the two incumbents. Although he is vice chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Counties and fought for the legalization of Bean'o and liberalized pensions for city workers, he has been hurt by a gambling scandal. Lombardi was arrested in November 1970 and charged with violation of the gaming laws. He was found guilty and on December 22, 1971 he was given a suspended sentence of three years and fined...
Outside New York, meanwhile, the Gambino gunmen cornered Lombardi and his girl friend in a motel room, forced the couple into their car and then drove them to a secluded roadside. After killing Lombardi, the gunmen were about to finish off the girl friend when they were interrupted by the chattering of a squirrel. Mistaking the animal for a human witness, the hit men loosed a fusillade into the bushes and fled. The squirrel died, but the girl friend, shot once in the neck, survived and gave police a detailed description of the assailants. If nothing else, as the joke...