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Sometimes irresponsibility has marked his Senate campaign too. In a race overburdened by appeals to ethnic groups, Keating has urged Isreal's admission to NATO, insinuated that Kennedy has Nazi sympathies, and accused Kennedy of deliberately impuning Italian character by his handling of the Valachi testimony...
...Joseph Valachi, 60, don't care if it does become a bore. In the District of Columbia jail where he is resting his weary bones and wagging tongue, Joe has been asked to whip up an autobiography in hopes that he will drop a few pearls about swine he forgot before. But Joe is taking the whole thing as a serious publishing venture, says a CBS newsman who got hold of the first paragraph of The Real Thing. "To begin with," writes Joe, "I must say I came from the poorest family on earth. As a boy I went...
Kind & Gentle. To his neighbors in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., the quiet suburban town where he lived for some 30 years and raised his two children, Genovese seemed a "kind and gentle man." But according to Joe Valachi, the underworld canary who sang for the Senate's McClellan committee, Neapolitan-born Racketeer Genovese, 65, is the "boss of all bosses." He arrived, Valachi explained, by a straightforward tactic: he had his rivals murdered...
Genovese operated mostly around New York City, specializing in gambling and narcotics. As far back as 1947, New York's Governor Thomas Dewey called him "the new king of the rackets." And king or not, he made crime pay. His wealth, said Valachi, "would break the adding machine." His estranged wife said that Genovese was worth over $30 million, mostly stashed away in safe-deposit boxes...
...Senators want to learn about American crime, they should do so, but they should not corrupt the Senate's legitimate powers of investigation, as they have done with Valachi performance...