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...underworld's most powerful force is the quieter and more sophisticated Genovese clan, with its entrenched army of more than 1,500 "made" members and associated underworld entrepreneurs. "You keep hearing all this crap about Gotti being the boss of the bosses," says Richard Ross, one of the FBI's leading Mafia experts, "but Genovese has always been the country's most powerful family." Says Joseph Coffey, a top investigator at the New York State Organized Crime Task Force: "The Genovese gang more or less invented labor racketeering. I consider them the Ivy League of the underworld...
...want to tell you about him. First, he's a journalist who has spent 20 years covering business, the South, Africa, the Third World, the Midwest and presidential politics. Second, Jack is the kind of editor who reaches beyond each week's staple news and probes the quieter truths of this country with sensitivity and tenacity...
Horowitz also knows the quieter side of Burns. "My parents died 10 years ago," she says, "and afterward I really fell apart. Of all my family and friends, she was the one who hung in there." In fact Burns has had a couple of setbacks in life, both impossible to conceal, and handled them with admirable determination and reserve. In high school her face was badly cut in a car crash, and it took several operations to repair the damage. Years later, just before she was to be married to a man well known in the cosmetics business, his company...
...capability to track Soviet submarines with just such precision, electronically gathering underwater sound waves through sonar (sound navigation and ranging). The movie's depiction of a Soviet sub that can run on a superquiet water-propulsion system is not yet a reality. However, Soviet subs have become markedly quieter in recent years (partly because of Soviet espionage on U.S., Japanese and Norwegian propeller technology, which has reduced the cavitation, or spewing of noisy bubbles, from the blades). By some estimates, the Soviets are now able to slip undetected to within 10,000 yds., or torpedo range, of American boats...
...hour Science Center guard concept. Because of the volume of daytime traffic, deliveries and classes, a 24-hour guard would be worthless. As an alternate suggestion, I suggest that the guards be posted at about 3:30, when maintenance people generally start to leave and the building becomes quieter...