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...JAMES RUOCCO Hillsborough...
...lead didn't last long--only to the 20:20 mark of the first half. Although the Harvard defense had been containing--if not dominating--the Yale attack, Colin McElvoy sent a pass from deep in the left corner of the Crimson defensive zone to teammate Alberto Ruocco, who gunned the sphere past Erulcar from the seven-yard mark...
...hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York gallery owner, Louis Ruocco, noted that the painter was a "user of people," who admired Salvador Dali and his methods of attracting publicity. The attack, Ruocco guessed, was probably a publicity stunt. But Ligoa Duncan, another gallery owner, suggested that the "modest man" she knew would not have attempted such...
Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
After 50 hours of vain efforts to get his ship off the Goodwins, Captain Ruocco sorrowfully went ashore with his crew of 28, two German stowaways and an Alsatian pup. Later he came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...
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