Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering the Mob," claims TIME'S New York-based Correspondent Sandy Smith, "is as safe as covering a Sunday-school picnic." The principal reporter for this week's cover story on "The Mafia at War," towering, jovial Smith has exposed much of organized crime's invisible empire, and in the process has become one of the best-known crime reporters in the nation...
...underworld as a pavement-pounding police reporter, first for the Chicago Tribune and then the Chicago Sun-Times. During that period he cultivated unrivaled sources on both sides of the law. Smith also became known for the unorthodox tactics he used in his dogged pursuit of the Mob, which included crashing gangland soirees. When Smith showed up uninvited at a $20,000 wedding reception for the daughter of Sam ("Mooney") Giancana, the reputed Mafia chieftain pleaded for privacy. "Look at that kid," said Giancana, pointing to his new son-in-law. "Now everybody is going to hook him up with...
...crack investigative reporter for LIFE between 1967 and 1969, Smith wrote a two-part expose of the Mob that won an award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Since joining our staff two years...
...return to the omerta of turn-of-the-century Little Italys, where Mafia was a whispered word and bosses were not bad gered by grand juries, tax investigators and wiretaps. To accomplish his goal, Colombo tapped deepseated, legitimate grievances among Italian Americans and ? shocking editorial writers and Mob capos alike?jumped into press conferences and picket lines. He sought to make Cosa Nostra private once more by turning any derision of Italian Americans?Mafiosi or not?into a cause for public censure. It was a radical notion that more traditional Mafia leaders could not have imagined...
...feet 4½ inches, Jordan cuts a formidable figure. In 1961, while Georgia field director of the NAACP, he cleared a path through an angry white mob and led the first black coed into the University of Georgia; the image of Jordan shielding Charlayne Hunter from students screaming threats and obscenities remains among the indelible Southern memorabilia of the early 1960s...