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...Robert Venturi, a professor of architecture at Yale, his wife, and twelve architecture students visited the city in the fall of 1968 to study the strip as a part of a studio course that Venturi was teaching at Yale. Given free room and board at the Stardust Hotel, the finest on the strip, a reduction in the hourly price for the use of a Howard Hughes helicopter, and the company of an official of the electric sign company, the group spent ten days in Las Vegas in an attempt to document and analyze urban sprawl. Fearing that the civic beautification...
Married. Ken Venturi, 41, U.S. Open golf champion in 1964, now the pro at a Palm Springs, Calif., country club; and Beau Wheat, 38, restaurant hostess; both for the second time; in Cathedral City, Calif., where Frank Sinatra, after giving away the bride, hosted a celebrity-studded reception...
...many respects, the Mafia and the Union Corse are similar. Both are divided into a number of families-the Mafia into about 24 in the U.S., the Union Corse into about 15 in France. The best-known of the Corsican families are the Francisci, Orsini, Venturi and Guerini clans. The identity of some of the clans is so deep a secret that a member could be marked for death for discussing them. And in the matter of exterminating informers, the Union Corse is said to be quicker and more deadly than the Mafia...
Other known leaders of the Union Corse, according to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in testimony before the same Senate subcommittee, include Dominique Venturi, 49, and his brother Jean, 51. Dominique's base has been Marseille, where he has been known as a political crony of Mayor Gaston Deferre, the Socialist candidate for President of France in 1969. Dominique got into the narcotics-smuggling business in 1953, and at one time ran a fleet of yachts for hauling morphine base from the Middle East to Marseille. Jean Venturi, who went to Canada in 1952 and is believed...
...Montreal Star, adding: "The fact remains that in Harlem and Watts and every other Negro community . . . 'they' [assassins] exist as perpetual enemies, while the one figure who might have provided hope was removed forcibly from the arena." Perhaps the farthest reach came from Italian Author Raoul Romoli-Venturi (Encounter with Democracy). "Unfortunately," he said, "all the tensions of the world have been imported by the United States...