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Most of the wives are totally untouched by the violence that pervades their husbands' lives. Not Jeanne Randazzo. Her husband Frank and two other men were shot to death last summer in the basement of the Randazzos' modest home on the east side of Detroit. The gunman, a government informer named Ernie Kanakis, was acquitted on the ground of self-defense; he told a jury that the others had tried to kill him with ice picks...
When Bus Driver Frank Randazzo spotted a dozen youths beating up a policeman in New York City last summer, he slammed on his brakes, jumped out of the bus to fight the attackers, and suffered assorted facial wounds in the process. Later he spent seven days testifying against two of the youths, who were ultimately convicted of assault. For his trouble, Randazzo had his pay docked $232. Because the fight was in the street rather than on his bus, ruled the City Transit Authority, the law-defending driver was on his own time each and every minute he spent...
Appalled, Queens District Attorney Nat Hentel last week named Randazzo the first winner of an "honor" certificate to be handed out each year by the D.A. "for the exercise of exceptional citizenship responsibility." Unfortunately, though, in what Hentel aptly calls "the cold society," awards seem unlikely to reform those who live by the big-city philosophy: Ignore thy neighbor...
...there rented a room in a cheap boardinghouse. He went to the Monte Citorio Palace, where Italy's Parliament meets, and asked for a visitor's card from a Sicilian delegate, Francisco Turnaturi. (Later Turnaturi denied that he knew Pallante. "When he insisted he came from Randazzo, a place where I had many votes, I did what we all might have done; I gave him a card," explained the deputy...
Required Gymnastics. The required gym course is the worst. Ray Randazzo, 31, lost 65 Ibs. when he got rheumatic fever in the New Hebrides. He has his weight back now, but is still too weak to turn over in bed without help, let alone take regular gym exercises. He has to try them anyway. Frank Scares, 35, lost his right leg at Oran when somebody fumbled a souvenir German grenade. When Scares' gym instructor recently asked him to skip rope, he managed three jumps, then fainted...