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...painting of John Lennon by Dan Maffia depicts him as I saw him: a bit arrogant, confident, but forever young...
Spheres can also be used as quiet zones on construction sites, as workrooms in noisy open offices, for private sales pitches in crowded exhibition halls, or even as studies in small apartments. In a new film, La Grande Maffia, a periscope-equipped sphere becomes an observation point from which a floor supervisor oversees office workers. That seems to leave just one untested use for the uniquely French sphere-as a trysting spot...
...edit his remarks? The easy confidence of the happy tourists reflected their satisfaction at the turn of events, but it also raised a question: Had the Malenkov affair been, as Communist sources were anxious to make out, a personal power struggle on the lines of a Maffia feud or a Chicago gang fight? Or was it, remembering the breadth and depth of the Soviet state, and the irreducible fanaticism of the Communist ideology, a power adjustment of pro-founder significance...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...
Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...