Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...launch pad 21 months before. Any more serious trouble would all but wipe out U S hopes of landing men on the moon before the end of 1969. Thus, as the towering Saturn IB rocket lifted ponderously off the pad after a heart-stopping moment of hesitation, U.S. hopes rose with it. At week's end, the eleven-day mission of Apollo 7 was proceeding as near to perfection as space officials had dared hope...
...Parke-Bernet's auction, other paintings of value brought high prices: a Pissarro went for a record $260,000, a 1906 Picasso for $430,000, believed to be a record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude...
...present to receive plaques from the president of the Varsity Club, Sam Drury '35. Prominent among them are George Oven '23, a nine-letter winner in football, hockey, and baseball, who later starred for the Boston Bruins; Thomas Woods '20 an All-American guard on the 1920 Rose Bowl team; Arnold Horween '21, captain of the 1921 football team and Crimson grid coach from...
...period, but there were a couple of exciting minutes. With about six minutes left, Lalich had to eat the ball, was hit hard, and had to leave the game temporarily. Sub Frank Champi pitched wide to Gatto whose option pass bounced off several players, including Harvard's Varney, before Rose intercepted...