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...crime groups -- and its purse strings. On one side are roughly 40 members loyal to Carmine (the Snake) Persico, the 59-year-old boss currently serving a 100-year prison term in Lompoc, Calif., for racketeering. The Persico forces are being challenged by 60 or so members loyal to Victor (Little Vic) Orena, the 57-year-old acting head who has been solidifying his grip on the family's businesses, ranging from gambling and prostitution to air freight, construction, catering and liquor distribution...
...monument to the gusto and grit of a nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power...
...that he felt we were bluffing, and that he also felt another thing where he was just as wrong: the Nasser parallel -- he doesn't have to win to win. He can be seen as standing up against this onslaught, the West, the Yankees, and be seen as a victor ((even)) if he sues for peace." Saddam, thinks Bush, misread American newspaper editorials and arguments on television. "He was still living back in the Vietnam days. He didn't know we had a different ball game on here, different levels of technology, a different military force, a different President...
...CHIEFTAINS: THE BELLS OF DUBLIN (RCA Victor). Is it too late for season's greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such % diverse characters as Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones and Marianne Faithfull. A real Christmas treat...
...SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS. London loved U.S. writer Richard Nelson's semitrue story about rival Macbeths who sparked an 1849 New York City riot. For the Broadway staging, now in previews, Brian Bedford and Victor Garber play the duo, one British and one American, one declamatory and the other psychological in style...