Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GODFATHER, by Mario Puzo, is a robust, crisply narrated novel about the Mafia with a clear-cut moral: the family that preys together stays together...
British envoy Charley Whitlock flew to the island March 11 and was expelled he said, at gunpoint. Whitlock charged that Anguilla was "completely dominated by a gangster-type element ... somehow like the Mafia...
...will not force Anguilla back under St. Kitts, things should be relatively easy." He said there is evidence that an American, Jack N. Holcomb, and several others "are exerting enormous influence" over Ronald Webster, Anguilla's president, but added that there was no proof of any link with the Mafia...
...usual, after money and power are secured, the name of the game is respectability and status. The Godfather, which advances and contracts suggest should earn its author at least $500,000 in royalties, paperback and film rights, could prove a subtle opening move in getting the Mafia into the same league as the House of Lords and the German General Staff...
...book up to the proportions of a bestselling beach ball. Yet he keeps it spinning brightly-if somewhat unevenly-with a crisp, dramatic narrative style. His professional skill is not surprising. Puzo, 48, learned what keeps a reader turning pages by freelancing and editing adventure magazines. Many of his Mafia anecdotes, he claims, come from his 81-year-old Italian mother. Puzo's own Mafia connections are strictly social. He enjoys frequent jaunts to the Mafia-backed gambling dens in the Bahamas. That he should thus leave some of the royalty money with the very people whom he good...