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...writing in a candidate--in case someone wants to. And the fact that the Superintendant of the Chicago Park District Edmund L. Kelly, the largest patronage dispenser next to Byrne, decided to endorse Epton a few hours after Byrne made her announcement, and long-time machine power Aid. Vito Maraulo also jumped on the Reagan bandwagon, only serves to chip away at already-affirmed Democratic support for voter-endorsed Washington...
...players. He is a sort of celebrity despot; his enemies regard him as an oaf. But Steinbrenner is so thoroughly Steinbrenner, a kind of masterpiece of himself, that he invites a sneaking wonder of the kind we reserve sometimes for natural phenomena. He runs the team the way Don Vito Corleone ran the rackets. He dismisses managers the way Bluebeard ditched wives. Steinbrenner has gone through nine managers in the ten years he has been principal owner of the Yankees...
Never passed along to the committee, for example, was an FBI report that "one source indicates the upper management of the Schiavone Construction Co. [where Donovan was a vice president] is closely aligned with the Vito Genovese family of L.C.N. [La Cosa Nostra]." It named the company official, who was not Donovan, allegedly providing this Mafia tie. This report was initialed by two top FBI officials, Francis Mullen and Charles P. Monroe. Both appeared at the confirmation hearings, but report told the committee of this alleged Mafia connection...
...companies with fewer than 20 workers not only from automatic wage increases but also from compliance with regulations on benefits, safety rules and social security. Suddenly, larger companies were chopped into smaller ones. In many cases, workers defied their unions and helped with the chopping. They did so, explains Vito Scalio, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and onetime union leader, because workers believe that the unions are out of date. Says Scalio: "They still insist on representing a proletariat that wants to grow out of the proletariat class and become entrepreneurs...
...Moshav Sadot are demanding at least half of the estimated $2.2 billion-or 13% of the 1981 national budget-that Israel has set aside as compensation for the Sinai settlers. But even that will not console all of them. Says Ella Weizman, 31, who sits tensely with her husband Vito in the comfortable living room of their farm home: "We came to nothing, and we made something out of it. You can't pay for the soul and the dreams we put into this place...