Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What had brought the Mob chiefs together was a series of powwows with New York City Mafia bosses about the new Mob power structure (TIME cover, May 16). TIME has learned that the Western gangsters reported on the progress they have made in expanding their rackets. Bruno's men came to complain about the New Yorkers who are moving into Atlantic City, traditionally Philadelphia Mob territory. And everyone wanted to pay respect to Dons Aniello Dellacroce and Carmine Galante, front runners to succeed Carlo Gambino as the Mafia's next boss of bosses...
...have been the 20 or more Mob-connected murders by hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols (TIME, April 18). FBI investigators now believe that there are separate killers deployed by hoodlums in Chicago and by the Genovese family in New York City. Last week the Mafia's high council decided that too many bodies were being left in the streets-bringing the Mob unwanted public attention. A Mafia insider told TIME: "The orders are to plant [bury] them...
Across the city in a gracious colonial home, another Mafia wife speaks with pride of her husband, a graduate of a prestigious university who served honorably in the Army. A recent family portrait hangs above the fireplace. Her husband is not in the picture; he is serving a five-year term...
...Mafia wives rarely unburden themselves to friends, and sometimes not even to their parish priests. Says a Grosse Pointe priest: "One woman's husband is in prison. She doesn't want to be asked how he is. The subject is never introduced. Her man is away; she misses the father of her children...
When Mass is over, one top-ranking Mafia wife returns home where a plaque proclaims her MADONNA OF THE KITCHEN. A housekeeper is here today only because the wife is ill. She makes a point of saying that she cares for her own house. It is a matter of pride. "We live a quiet life. It is not our intention to be noticed," she says. "I'm happiest sometimes when they leave my name off the list of charity contributors...