Word: stefano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's chief racket buster, created "Strike Force," a team of lawyers and investigators from different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation of Stefano Magaddino. Stefano's son Peter, in whose home agents found more than $500,000 in cash as well as a clutch of weapons, has been prosecuted, among others, as a result of their efforts. Similar Strike Forces have now been set up in seven other cities...
...Festival documents the origin of her reputation as one of the finest dramatic sopranos in opera history. Her voice then had an almost unbelievable poignancy and precision, reinforced by an intelligence that makes most other singers' version of the mad scene seem like inane twittering. Tenor Giuseppi Di Stefano, Baritone Tito Gobbi and Conductor Tullio Serafin provide rousingly good support...
ONOFRE DI STEFANO...
...Argentines weighed in with a giddy show, which includes Julio Le Fare's kinetics, David Tamelas' 20-ft-high minimal cubes, and poppish plastic nudes by Juan Carlos di Stefano so obscene that one local official threatened to expel them. Poland's Tadeus Kantor shows that the Iron Curtain has long since popped wide open with his portrait collage of a stuffed shirt (with shirt). France's Baldaccini Cesar took another of the ten minor prizes with his sculptures of Mobil Oil cans and plastic. He disdained it, snorting "Ask Pablo [Picasso], or Sartre, or Fidel...
...days prior to and ten days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice gets heavy and my eyes bloodshot. If I do overdo it, however, my high C sharps run the risk of finishing up as C naturals." Tenor Ramon Vinay claims that during...