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...Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months by greeting Carlo with a familiar, but unusually inspired, assortment of applie-pie beds, shaving-cream beds, cold-pizza beds, and all the other ingenious tortures you can learn in six years of prep school. Carlo finally got the message. Chastened, he carted his sopcial pretensions back into his room and spent the rest of the semester alone with Einstein, Planck and the Four Seaons' Golden Vaults...
...report this week's cover story on the Mafia, our third in eight years, TIME correspondents in five major cities interviewed local federal authorities, talked with gangsters and followed their elusive tracks into casinos, pizza parlors, skyscraper offices and political hangouts. Covering the Mob casts the reporter in the role of sleuth-cultivating sources, comparing notes and collating data into hypotheses. Among the correspondents doing this detective work were New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett and John Tompkins, who are no strangers to the machinations of the Mob. Barrett edited TIME's first Mafia cover in 1969; Tompkins...
...gambits for laundering enough cash to live exceedingly well by most Americans' standards, if not like the jet-set multimillionaires that their net worth would enable them to be. Some pass money to very cooperative bankers, who lend it back. Others own legal businesses with large cash flows?bars, pizza parlors, restaurants, jukebox companies or vending-machine firms. No matter how poorly the business may do, its books show huge profits because the mobster is pumping in the rackets money, thereby converting it into cash that can be spent openly. Other Mafiosi have no-show jobs, with either their...
...Atlantic City, Gambino family members are scouting hotels that are up for sale and have invested in some bars and pizza parlors. U.S. Attorney Jonathan Goldstein expects increased Mob involvement in Atlantic City service industries: linen supply, liquor distribution and the like. The Gambino men are pushing aside local gangsters who work for Angelo Bruno, Philadelphia's ailing and unimposing Mafia don. Had Bruno been stronger, the invasion might not have occurred. To mollify Bruno, the New Yorkers are willing to toss his people some Atlantic City scraps?services like garbage hauling, vending machines and pest control...
Past Harvard Pizza, across Mass Ave, by the Fogg. Divinity Avenue in a sprint, a good morning kiss for the rhino, through the Vanserg parking lot in a blaze...