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...Government Center, green line. Lines B through E screech cacophonously past waiting passengers. A middle-aged man strolls in with a dolly full of wires, batteries, an amplifier, a microphone and a guitar. He begins to construct his stage against the back wall of Dunkin' Donuts. Eric Talerico is a 42 year-old musician who has played in Boston subway stations for nearly 10 years. Once a private school teacher, Talerico moved to Boston in search of another classroom, but found himself on platforms instead. Performing in the subways became a full-time job. He works 40 hours a week...
...Music plays a significant part in this performer's life--it's even a career. He has business cards, cruise ship gigs under his belt and offers from the industry. Although Talerico makes rent and has sufficient leisure time, the job lacks the benefits of a 9-to-5. Last year a heart attack struck this performer and left him above ground for nearly six months. Without medical insurance, Talerico estimates that he'll be paying for that tragedy for a long time. Overall, however, the subway has provided a viable source of income, albeit an unpredictable one. Talerico explains...
...indictment traces the flow of illegal cash from the Stardust counting and cashier's cages through a number of bagmen for delivery to Mob leaders in the three Midwest cities. FBI agents, for example, claim to have followed Joseph Talerico, a Teamster business agent from Chicago, on monthly trips between Las Vegas and Chicago that sometimes took more than a week as he tried to throw off any trackers. The agents have sworn they watched Talerico pick up packages from a Stardust executive and then meet Aiuppa in Chicago...
...editor, of the daily Algemeen Handelsblad, read Le Monde's "document" and thought it had a vaguely familiar ring. Digging into his closet, Besnard found some old copies of the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. In the September 1950 issue he found an article by Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior officer in an unofficial publication. Caught with a fake, Le Monde sadly concluded...