Word: vito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Niro was only 16 when he snared his first serious acting jobs. Some 14 lean years and much obsessive labor followed before he gained wide recognition in Bang the Drum Slowly. Only two years later, in 1975, he won an Academy Award for his role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. "I wasn't what you call an attractive person...
...that a number of cops he has seen from the force in Sacramento, Calif., have impotence problems, "usually the men who do the best job in the streets." The physical dangers of the job are almost the least of it. "We expect that," says New York Policeman Ronald De Vito. "But seeing the people we deal with-the sick, the underprivileged children, the old, the maimed-and being eaten up because we cannot help, that is the most dangerous part...
...from the Mercury, the third already mounted and in operation. Fanning out, Vecchio's men raided four other tobacco distributors, confiscated 50,000 cartons of cigarettes and arrested eleven men-including three major wholesalers and Murray Kessler, 52, identified by police as a high-ranking member of the Vito Genovese mob. But, says Vecchio, "it was only a drop in the bucket...
...Rosenbaum's iron chancellorship and Rockefeller's tight paternal grip. The two leaders had fought first in Kansas over whether Clark could have a Reagan telephone on the floor, then over whether Reagan should be formally invited to address the whole delegation. Rosenbaum vetoed both ideas. Complained Reagan Delegate Vito Battista: "This is like the Gestapo...
...Despite CIA objections, Graham A. Martin, then U.S. Ambassador to Italy, secretly paid $800,000 in 1972 to Vito Miceli, a right-wing general who headed Italy's military intelligence agency. The money was to demonstrate U.S. support of Italian antiCommunists. According to a story in Turin's La Stampa, the $800,000 for Miceli was small potatoes: the paper claimed that one of its reporters had obtained secret documents from Pike's committee showing that the CIA had given Italian political parties $74 million from...