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...Santa Claus and hung up my stocking," he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. "But all I would get on Christmas was having my father try and give me a glass of whisky." So, as any child psychologist might have predicted, Joe joined the Cosa Nostra, muscled his way up through the ranks and then, in a long-running 1963 TV series that might have been called 1,000 Days with Bobby Kennedy, transferred his allegiance to the Irish Mafia...
...exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...
...Cosa Nostra boys, who would like to put a big dent in Joe, so far have had to be content with advertising a $100,000 price on his head. That price may go higher. Last week the Justice Department announced that it had offered Valachi's memoirs, entitled The Real Thing, to a dozen U.S. and European publishers. Valachi was asked to write his life's story on the chance that he might recall some forgotten tidbits of information. No luck. Rather than junk the monumental tome, federal officials decided to waive the rule against federal prisoners writing...
...carmarks of a great big boondoggle, something for everyone. He believes in he great political game of give and get. That's what his War on Poverty amounts to." Rusher said that the poverty program reminded him of a cartoon he had seen of "two Cosa Nostra types sitting on a park bench." The caption was "Who do you think stands to score big from the War on Poverty?" Rusher smiled again. "Now don't write that to make me sound callous...
This unholy trinity constitutes the Nova Mob, a sort of celestial Cosa Nostra, and the book begins with "total disaster now on tracks" for earth, and "the whole planet absolutely flapping hysterical with panic." Any reader who hopes to learn in the end whether the Nova Mob outwits the efforts of Has san's Nova Police to save the world reveals a hidebound, unhip fixation with the old plotted fiction...