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Police detectives in New Jersey could hardly believe their ears. A mobster hit man named Joseph Rodriguez was spilling detail after gory detail about the 1972 slaying of Mafia Boss Emmanuel ("Nello") Cammarata. Rodriguez, 32, fearful that a contract was out for his own head, hoped for police protection by implicating himself and a New Jersey father and son in the killing. Rodriguez described with professional precision how the son, deftly disguised as a jogger, took aim at Cammarata as he was walking away from a North Miami bistro and drilled him with eight rounds from a .30-cal. carbine...
...four years in the local foundry before winning a scholarship in 1956 to London's Royal College of Music. She was hired by the Zurich Opera in 1962 as a mezzo, but soon found she couldn't restrain herself from "singing top Cs and trilling." Zurich Conductor Nello Santi listened and forthwith pronounced her a soprano...
Less romantic than cosmic rays is the problem of food and air for space voyagers, but Dr. Nello Pace of the University of California considers the problem no less interesting. A normal man has a water turnover of about 5 Ibs. a day. Since the spaceship must conserve every possible ounce of weight, this water must be recycled: condensed from the air and extracted from urine and feces. Food cannot be recycled without making the spaceship a flying farm, and Dr. Pace is not even sure that preserved food will be satisfactory for a long voyage. No preserved ration...
...Frank Sinatra walked into your office and punched I TIME Hollywood Correspondent] Ezra Goodman right in the middle of his fat face, I can't say I'd blame him . . . NELLO PACETTI Kenosha...
...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...