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...motives for singling out Galante, crime watchers agree that after being paroled from Lewisburg in 1974, he first gained control of Brooklyn's Joseph Bonanno family, one of the five major Mafia families in New York, then won the respect of the other New York capi. Says Lieut. Remo Franceschini, New York's intelligence chief for organized crime: "Most of the bosses might welcome a new image, a strong figure who would take the heat and let them get on with business." One boss, Aniello Dellacroce, 62, may have other ideas. Known for his own brand of ruthlessness...
Numbers Man. Franklin seems to have fallen victim to his own attempts to bring more scientific management to the diverse, largely fashion-oriented (Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller) business. Jarman, a numbers man who carries an elaborate pocket calculator, lopped off several divisions, including San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, and slashed 10,000 employees from the payroll. The surgery alienated the heads of many of Genesco's 78 operating divisions, who resented Jarman's lack of merchandising expertise. Some grumbled that Jarman "ran a fashion business as though it were...
...named him Genesco's first chief executive officer. A year later, Maxey Jarman retired from the board; although he visited the Genesco headquarters almost daily to chat with friends, he and his son hardly spoke. Meanwhile, Frank shut down 177 marginal Kress stores, sold such subsidiaries as San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, slashed more than 10,000 employees from the payroll and installed a new management team. "There were a lot of people around here who didn't work," Franklin Jarman told TIME Correspondent Jack White. "They thought Thursday afternoons...
...best of times, Neapolitans are looked down on by Northern Italians as lazy and unwashed ("Africa starts at Naples" is a prejudicial commonplace). Since the epidemic began, Neapolitans have been treated with all the warmth and feeling usually accorded lepers. In San Remo recently, a Neapolitan family was turned away from a hotel when 100 other guests threatened to check out en masse. Most mortifying of all, the Genoa soccer team forfeited an Italian championship match rather than play in infected Naples...
...Remo Gandin, acting operations manager for the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters, said the new cases signify "no change in policy." "I would expect that there will be other indictments," he added...