Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word Mafia isn't used much any more. And I never heard the term Cosa Nostra until Joe Valachi* used it. But there is one big gang that runs organized crime in this country. It has many different names-the Organization, the Syndicate. We generally call it the Mob. New young people who become members call it the Outfit...
...blabbering about the so-called Mafia, you do not explain that it could only exist either because the Italians have an above-average IQ or because the American authorities are very corruptible. Or for both reasons...
...editors of newsmagazines to observe the "law of omertà" namely silencing their writers' biased attacks on the Italian-American community. Joe Colombo will long be remembered as a champion of freedom for millions of Italian Americans. He will not be remembered as a "progenitor of the Mafia...
Nuclear Egg Rolls. Yes, there is a showdown on the high seas when the U.S. Navy intercepts Chinese whaling ships in which the missiles have been concealed like nuclear egg rolls. Salinger throws in a Mafia scheme to turn Santa Clara into a tourist trap, complete with capos still in their Godfather costumes. There is an implausible love story and even a touch of self-caricature. At his worst, Salinger is merely perfunctory, as if laboring under the realization that his "topical" novel is already eight years behind before it starts. At best, he uses his own Washington experience with...
...seen wearing a white shirt and a third recognized to be Anthony ("The Gawk") Augello-accompanied him to the rally. The man in the purple shirt has so far occasioned the most suspicion, because he happened to stray from Colombo's side at the precise moment that the Mafia chieftain was shot, raising the possibility that his part in the plot may have been to leave Colombo vulnerable to Johnson's attack...