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...loudspeaker crackled in the crisp mountain air: "The next runner will be Bibbia." On a Swiss hilltop high above St. Moritz, Nino Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...
...Nino Pirrotta, professor of Music, praised Toscanini for his high standards of perfection, citing the many instances in which he searched for the original manuscript of a composition in order to find the true interpretation as intended by the composer...
Streamlined Service. Nino Cottone's death was one more indication of an amazing change in Sicily. For more than a century any Sicilian who paid "protection" to the Mafia was virtually immune from theft or attack. In those days the murder of a Mafia member like Nino meant only one thing-he had betrayed the organization. Lately, however, the once unquestioned authority of the Mafia has been challenged by a rival syndicate that calls itself Anonima Delitte-Crime Incorporated. In the past two years Crime Inc. has murdered 22 Mafia men. Result: a sharp drop in public faith...
Like any threatened monopoly, the Mafia has fought back. Last June two Crime Incers who had apparently defied Nino Cottone's rule of the fruit market were rubbed out in the heart of Crime Inc. territory, a Palermo suburb called Torrelunga. And when Nino was killed most of Palermo expected that the next move would be a revenge murder by the Mafia...
Instead, the next man to fall was Angelo Galatolo, a Mafia member whose brother was the first Mafia chieftain killed by Crime Inc. Twelve hours after Nino Cottone's death a police patrol near the village of Villa Pantelleria came upon a mule dragging an empty, bloodstained cart. Following a telltale trail of blood down the lonely road along which the mule had come, the police finally found the body of Angelo Galatolo, lying face down in the dust...