Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing gang war between New York City's embattled Mafia clans has deteriorated from messy to just plain murky. The showdown began openly enough when reputed Mafia Chieftain Joe Colombo was gunned down last year at an outdoor rally for his Italian-American Civil Rights League. Then in April "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Colombo's archenemy, was assassinated in the relative privacy of a Little Italy clam house. Last month the nephew of Carlo Gambino, boss of the nation's strongest Mafia family and a Colombo ally, was kidnaped...
Where was Frank Sinatra? The House Select Committee on Crime wanted to ask him some questions about his part-ownership of the Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts during the early 1960s, when other part-owners included two Mafia leaders. But when the committee tried to serve a subpoena on Sinatra, it couldn't find the fast-moving horseman, who turned up in London-to attend some races. He was seen at dinner with Composer Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), but then checked out of his hotel for points unknown. Said a hotel spokesman: "Frank Sinatra is not here...
...seemed curious to me that so many people would prefer to share their churches and neighborhoods with gangland killers rather than homosexuals. After all, isn't love, whether for the same sex or the opposite sex, a better example for our children than the current national fascination with Mafia heroes...
Croats have also turned Sweden into an arena of terror for fellow Yugoslavs. They have taken to Mafia-like extortion, demanding payoffs of $400 or more from their countrymen, many of whom have become Swedish citizens. One young Yugoslav actor who recently played the lead in a Swedish television drama about Croatian terror, suddenly found that he was playing the role in real life; he was threatened with death, evidently for exposing the dark side of Yugoslav emigre politics, and was placed under police guard...
...named Admiral, against the forces of darkness who chivvied him about in a swarm of radio taxis. By contrast, Bonecrack's ride is modest. The trainer, galloping prodigally crosscountry on his best racer, tries to head off the sulky boy-jockey from inadvertent assassination by one of his Mafia father's goons...