Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penetrating a grand jury, the Mafia makes...
...mean they don't vote for him--as they do in overwhelming numbers. Long's popularity in his home state has survived his serious bout with alcoholism and a nasty divorce--both now over--as well as reports tying him to the crime empire of Carlos Marcello. One Louisiana mafia henchman admitted a few years ago to having carried money from Marcello to Long; others in the mob there take credit for using Marcello and Teamsters money to buy seven Senate votes to help elect Long Senate Whip in 1965. The Senator, it should also be noted, took a very...
DIED. Joseph Zerilli, 79, godfather of the Detroit Mafia; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A Sicilian immigrant who started as a construction worker, Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating...
...know where he ever thought he got a mandate from the American people to have Rosalynn Carter handle the South American issue and Lillian Carter handle other issues." Many executives are disturbed by Carter's reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter: "I don't think all the brains in the world are in the Northeast. But I don't think they are all in Georgia either...
...clique of amateurs who know nothing about the theater." He is still unhappy with some fellow showfolk, and has now placed an ad in the London Times calling for formation of a writers' "fighting unit" to combat unfriendly reviewers. The group will be a "British playwrights' Mafia," according to Osborne, who penned a playlet describing their imaginary first meeting. "Critics are a dissembling, dishonest, contemptible race of men," says the group's godfather-played by Osborne, naturally. "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs...