Word: pisciotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mafia's decline dates from the Italian government's success six years ago in arranging the murder of famed Mafia Leader Salvatore Giuliano by his cousin Gaspare Pisciotta (TiME, July 17, 1950). thereby not only ridding Mafia of one of its most powerful leaders but also destroying that confidence in each other that was the Mafia's most compelling...
...doubtful that any treatment so far devised for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a form of leukemia that affects older adults) prolongs the patient's life, said Marquette University's Dr. Anthony V. Pisciotta, but it is possible to prolong useful life by transfusions, X ray and drug treatments which reduce unsightly tumor masses and control anemia. Two effective drugs: T.E.M. and a new one named chlorambucil...
...last week, the guards at Ucci-ardone heard a cry for help from Pisciotta pere. "Gasparino is feeling bad," called the old man. "Help him in God's name." The guards arrived in time to find the young bandit writhing convulsively on his bunk. Rushed off to the prison hospital, he died some 40 minutes later. What had happened? On the face of it, nothing. Gaspare had brewed his own and his father's coffee as he did every morning. As usual, he had stirred into his own cup a spoonful of vitamin preparation. The medicine...
...Italy was alive with theories about who killed Pisciotta. The fascist and Communist press did their best to put it on newly appointed Premier Scelba's administration, but had no evidence to go on. Others whispered the dread and legendary name of Mafia. But in Sicily, where the ways of bandits are better understood, the people cared little for such sophisticated argument. For Sicilians, it was enough that an informer had been killed...
...Gaspare Pisciotta's dead body was borne from the church in the small town of Montelepre to the little cemetery on its outskirts, it passed the drygoods shop of Mariannina Giuliano, Salvatore's sister. The windows were banked high with cheerful red carnations, as if for a village festival. "At last," signed Giuliano's vindictive old mother, Maria, when the procession wound by her house, "the big-mouthed one is silent...