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Correspondents James Willwerth and Sandy Smith reported from the New York firing line, and from their own experience as thug watchers. Willwerth's first brush with the Mob dates back to 1969, when an anonymous phone call took him from Manhattan to Tucson, Ariz., and a three-hour interview with a confidant of Family Man, Joe Bonanno. His article appeared with our cover story on the Mafia (TIME, Aug. 22, 1969). Last summer Willwerth reported on the shooting of Joe Colombo...
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...death in 1969, the heir suffered dry periods in which his output was only soso. Not even Jack Anderson can find an interesting piece of skulduggery every day. So he relates, in tones of breathless outrage, such gossip as a 1970 bit about the then mayor of Tucson, James Corbett Jr., allegedly barging uninvited into a young woman's Washington hotel room and biting her knee (Corbett lost the subsequent election). Anderson also polices the drinking habits of Capitol Hill (he is an abstemious Mormon) and waxes indignant when public servants do not pay their own hotel bills...
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...convention of 1972, and the chances are that most of the delegates will be pledged to a candidate-thus giving the American electorate a pre-New Hampshire bellwether. Who will the Arizonans be backing in Miami? On present form, Ed Muskie, already endorsed by influential Representative Morris Udall of Tucson, has the edge...