Word: mafioso
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...harshly. Addonizio has figured prominently in the transcripts of bugged Mafia conversations; the talkative and perhaps misleadingly boastful mobsters discussed him and other prominent politicians as so many common stocks to be bought, held and discarded (TIME, Jan. 19). As the trial of Addonizio and seven others, including reputed Mafioso Anthony (Tony Boy) Boiardo, began, the Government argued that there was more than braggadocio connecting the mayor and the mob. Addonizio, the Government said, had left a safe congressional seat to make "a million dollars" as mayor and then set about doing it by getting the mob to force city...
...past Ohio's popular Governor James Rhodes to win the Republican senatorial nomination by only 3,165 votes out of more than 900,000 cast. Ohio experts agree that what made the difference was al legations in LIFE that the Governor had been unduly kind to a jailed Mafioso, and that he had run into trouble with the Internal Revenue Service over alleged misuse of campaign funds...
...article linking him with the Mafia. That's no joke, but the federal courtroom dissolved in guffaws when the clerk read a deposition from Witness Barry Goldwater, who figured in the case because a key underworld figure claimed acquaintance with him. He had never heard of alleged Mafioso James Fratianno, said the Senator, but the man's photo looked familiar. "In fact, he looks a little like Agnew...
...mild bunch descends on the cash resources of NATO, which are being moved from France to Belgium via freight train. Three separate elements pursue the loot: a tough Mafioso (Eli Wallach), two French thieves (Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an elegant supercriminal (David Niven) known respectfully as "the Brain...
...person from many occupations for life. Drugs challenge the whole structure of adult values. In addition, most Americans' knowledge of drugs has been clouded by a widely promulgated series of bromides. When the topic comes up, most parents envisage the dope pusher standing outside the high school or the Mafioso prowling the streets in sunglasses. Marijuana, most adults believe, identically affects everyone who uses it and inevitably leads to the slow death of heroin addiction. A joint today, they think, means a junkie tomorrow...