Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortage of cash was directly related to Mafia difficulties in recent years: A summit conference at Apalachin was raided; Joe Valachi revealed all their secret handshakes on television; the Government began to penetrate their rule of silence with a law requiring testimony under a grant of immunity...
...release him by agreeing to give up his New York activities. He was then supposed to have reneged and fled to Haiti, where he had gambling interests under the protection of the late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Whatever happened, the result was a New York Mafia power struggle known as the Banana War. It ended with at least seven dead. In 1966, Bill Bonanno was almost killed in a Brooklyn ambush. After Joe Bonanno reappeared, his house in Tucson, Ariz., was bombed. It turned out not to be the Mafia. The assault, in fact, was carried...
...indication that Bill ever seriously thought of doing anything else but go into his father's business. Such an attitude was a sign of love and loyalty that undoubtedly pleased Joe Bonanno as much as his son's marriage to Rosalie Profaci, a daughter of the Brooklyn Mafia family whose patriarch, Joseph Profaci, provided Novelist Mario Puzo with a model for the "Godfather." Still, the strain of serving the old while being conditioned by the new showed in obvious and dramatic ways. Young Bill, reports Talese, had an ulcer at 15. As he grew up, his temper became...
...copyboy in 1953 and left as a hot-shot feature writer twelve years later. His specialty was the out-of-the-way, the offbeat, the loser, the star that has fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom corridor. One of Talese's fears in producing Honor Thy Father was that the Government would subpoena him to testify about...
...Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion...