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...switch it to the real meaning, inside the real meaning of the false meaning, which he would read as M." Pop is Angelo Partanna, consigliere to the nation's most puissant Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that has helped earn the gang international clout and an annual gross income of $1.7 billion. However, he took out his first Prizzi foe when he was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heel over Head | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio. The informant said Briguglio, in return for payoffs, gave Donovan information about low bids on Government construction contracts, which he learned of through Government contacts, so that Donovan could underbid. At his confirmation hearings, Donovan three times denied ever meeting Briguglio, the victim of a Mob execution in 1978. Another FBI source said that a labor fixer, Jack McCarthy, worked for the Schiavone Co. McCarthy has been convicted of racketeering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Than Full Disclosure | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

Tonight at that same coliseum before that same screaming mob the Crimson faces off at 9 05 EST WHRB is broadcasting against these same Badgers the best the country has to offer in the quarter final round of the NCAA tournament...

Author: By Michael Kass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson pucksters To Face Wisconsin | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

First of all, the icemen belong to a lunatic mob of fans that rung the Boston Garden with the Harvard Gong and so much more. Second, they belong in the record books as one of the most amazing come-from-back-in-the-pack teams in ECAC history, at team that went from garbage can to silver platter faster than you can drop the puck. And finally, and most importantly, they belong in the ECAC tournament finals tonight against Northeastern, after their 7-1 destruction of number-one-seeded Clarkson last night at the Garden...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Daydream Believer | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

Nobody missed what happened next, least of all Turner. The junior forward was engulfed by a mob scene usually reserved for overtime goals or Beanpot victories. His teammates poured out onto the ice, flung each other around in a frenzy of happiness, and then invited themselves to the ECAC's Garden party with 21 minutes of highlight-film hockey...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: It's On To The Garden For Harvard | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

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