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Murder at the Gallop has other notable characters and one--Robert Morly as Hector--even proves worthy escort for Miss Marple. But Margaret Rutherford is a mountain of reassurance all by herself, and in an age of Cosa Nostra it is comforting to enter at least one world in which crime can never...
Lodge may have been forced to this extreme by the family's failure to show any serious intentions to reform. To imagine that mandarin President Diem will ever take the initiative in reforming himself, the palace clique, the police, and the army, is like thinking that the Cosa Nostra will voluntarily abandon organized crime...
...Bronzed from a District of Columbia jail sun lamp and sucking a juice-filled plastic lemon to soothe his sore throat, he mumbled a litany of remembered violence on the sidewalks of New York in the '30s. He described the bloody revolution among rival Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra families in the New York-New Jersey area that took 60-odd lives with stiletto and chopper, involved intricate double and triple crosses and led to the ascendancy of Vito Genovese as the Mafia's "boss of bosses...
...duration he might also outgrow his paranoid delusion that there exists a secret brotherhood among architects whose cosa nostra is the clever foisting of "cheap", "disfiguring", "sleazy", "hideous", "bad", "unsightly", "unbalanced", "ugly", "monstrous", and (finally) "unattractive" buildings upon the architecturally uneducated public among whom Mr. Weil is the example par excellence. K. Paul Zygas...
...Valachi's testimony does nothing else, it has already produced a shocking commentary on the underworld jungle in the U.S. prison system. When Joe went to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a narcotics conviction in 1960, the Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses" Vito Genovese, a prisoner, was there too. Valachi said Genovese arranged for them to be cellmates. One night in their cell Genovese said to Valachi...