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...nominating speech for Hubert Humphrey in Chicago and was one of the men in the running for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Yet, according to Look, he is "enmeshed in a web of alliances with at least six leaders of La Cosa Nostra." In that web, Alioto provided mobster friends with "bank loans, legal services, business counsel and opportunities, and the protective mantle of his respectability. In return, he has earned fees, profits, political support and campaign contributions...
Another legacy from the Sicilian Mafia is Cosa Nostra's almost mystical concept of respect. Something like the Oriental notion of "face," respect means more to a Cosa Nostra mobster than money. If he does not have the regard of his fellow members, he is nothing, even in his own eyes. An equally high value is placed on loyalty. It is not always honored, to be sure, but it nevertheless remains a powerful binding force within the organization. Indeed, the very human characteristics of respect and loyalty, together with the organization's dynastic structure, offer some clues to its remarkable...
...tried, unsuccessfully, to recruit his confidant and all-round handyman, David Hill, 21, as an informer. Once a bomb landed in Bonanno's backyard. He thinks that an FBI agent may have prompted two young thugs to throw the bomb and start a fight between Bonanno and another mobster-a sequel to the "Banana War" that followed his downfall...
...Bonanno's house. A prosecution witness claims that an FBI man put them up to it. Thinking that Bonanno has been badly treated, young Hill last week volunteered to talk about his boss to TIME Reporter James Willwerth. The following is Hill's portrait of an obsolete mobster...
...looks, shaggy hair and modish clothes could easily mark him as a jet-setter, there is almost no one else around. It is a sad contrast to his high-rolling days, when prominent clergymen, judges and politicians felt it an honor to be entertained at the home of the mobster known as Joe Bananas. When the Government tried to deport Bonanno in 1954, for instance, among those who testified as character witnesses were the Most Rev. Francis Green, former Congressman Harold Patten and former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Evo DeConcini (the Most Rev. Francis Green is now the Roman Catholic...