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...village south of Rome. Having received TIME'S permission to use the story, he put his writers to work on the script. When shooting began last October, Tamburella used native Terracinans for all except the lead roles. One member of the cast, new to all moviegoers, is Patrizia Mangano (see cut), the heroine, who Tamburella thinks is headed for stardom...
...Dago Mangano never discounted the element of risk involved in business ventures; he always made it plain that he had no consuming ambition for power. Mike de Pike Heitler, Benjamin (Zookie the Bookie) Zuckerman and many others of his associates died noisily as the years passed, but Dago Mangano - "always prominent but never a big shot"-prospered in peace...
...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...three in the morning they walked out and climbed into Mangano's shiny, maroon 1941 Mercury. They headed back to Chicago, with Dago at the wheel. Mangano kept craning back over his shoulder. As the machine moved along Blue Island Avenue on the dingy West Side he said: "I think there's a squad car after us. We better see what they want." He braked his car to a stop, said, "Give me a fin to talk to them with," accepted a five-dollar bill from Big Mike, and climbed...
...black sedan rolled toward him and slowed. The street echoed with the slamming roar of gunfire, the black sedan raced away, screeched around a corner and was gone. Big Mike leaped out, began dragging Dago Mangano's moaning, bleeding bulk toward the curb. From around another corner the black sedan careened again. Big Mike pushed his girl to safety. The guns roared, and Big Mike fell beside Mangano, mortally wounded...