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Four other men attached to the Mob were hit. Bruno Carnevale, a "soldier" in the Carlo Gambino family,* was felled by a shotgun blast near his house in Queens Village, and died with $1,400 still in his pocket. A day later Tommy Ernst, a Staten Island mobster, was fatally wounded. A New Jersey janitor named Frank Ferriano was found in a lower Manhattan parking lot with half his head blown off by a shotgun blast. Hours later Richard Grossman, said to be a credit-card swindler working for the Colombo family, was found in the trunk...
...name and locale, Willowbrook State School seems a pleasant enough place: a teaching institution on a 400-acre bucolic tract on Staten Island in New York Harbor. Actually, Willowbrook, the world's largest institution for the mentally retarded, is a school in name only. It is instead a grim repository for those whom society has abandoned. What sets Willowbrook apart from similar facilities in other states is sudden exposure. Parents, legislators and newsmen have recently made headlines by attacking the system that allows such a place to exist. In the process, they have won some small sops for Willowbrook...
...battle of Willowbrook began last December when two staff members, Dr. Michael Wilkins, 30, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, 29, a social worker, began urging parents of Willowbrook children to campaign for better conditions. The two, who were later fired, triggered an emotional avalanche. A local daily, the Staten Island Advance, took up the cause with a damaging series of articles on the institution. New York television stations dispatched camera crews and gave generous amounts of air time. Politicians also visited the institution. All reached the same conclusion: conditions at Willowbrook were intolerable...
...delegates to a City-State Constitutional Convention. They would submit a constitution at the next city election; if it is approved, statehood bills would then be introduced in the legislature and Congress. But there is no certainty that city residents would buy the concept, much less the constitutional details. Staten Island President Robert T. Connor has already said that his borough would not go along and recalled that borough officials recently studied "how to get the hell out of New York City...
...only a 20-minute, five-mile trip from Staten Island to Manhattan, but when Zindel made it last week, it represented his emancipation. "Now maybe I'll be able to start living. Whoever I am was squashed," he says. Some public evidence of the past lingers; Zindel has another play, this one on Broadway, called And Miss Rear don Drinks a Little-about three sisters, all teachers. He is working on two plays, one the book for a musical, from the perspective of a new present and unknown future...