Word: palermo
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...financial crisis is real, but people long inured to trouble develop their own saving methods of endurance, apathy or escapism. Citizens of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro went about their affairs with a benumbed kind of ordinariness last week. Argentines flocked to the horse races at Palermo Hippodrome; Brazilians poured into Maracana Stadium for a futebol match. While they played, or worked at their jobs, the political disputation went...
Meanwhile, Giovanni Amato, the last prisoner left on the island, sipped chilled espresso as he watched the conventioners. "My family and I have enjoyed it here," said Amato. "Of course we'll return to Palermo when my five-year exile is up in October. But I'll surely come back to Ustica for vacations...
...Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland...
...state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including one offer of $100,000 to go in the tank for Kid Gavilan. Concluded Williams with bitter hindsight: "I should have taken the money...
...told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns, aging (79) ballyhoo artist who once managed Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing managers' guild, whose "good will" Gibson claimed to have purchased at a cost...