Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...
...Pont des Arts cost only $19,500 when its previous owner, Manhattan Collector Mrs. W. Clifford Klenk, bought it in 1941. The inevitable result has been to pull into the bull market a host of amateur speculators. To satisfy them, dealers are hustling out the "cats and dogs," in Wall Street parlance: stocks with a glamorous look but shaky prospects...
...BOOK AND THE GREAT WALL by Alberto Moravia. 170 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Days. Mao's dilemma is similarly reflected by Novelist-Journalist Alberto Moravia, whose Italian passport and sympathy for the revolution allowed him 22 days in China during 1967. "Mao's great enemy is not the United States," he writes in The Red Book and the Great Wall, "but fundamental Chinese Confucian conservatism. The danger is that, once Mao is dead, his thought will be embalmed and his figure deified...
...Moravia has an eye for detail that remains unblurred. His descriptions of a visit to the Great Wall, a dinner of duck in Peking's only remaining Westernized restaurant, and the sight of Red Guards parading beside his train are fascinating and vivid...