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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family.' That's what they should have done to Willie. Sure, that man never should have been disgraced like that." Added DeCavalcante: "It leaves a bad taste. We're out to protect people." At times, the mob seems to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Taping the Mafia | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...LADY at Revere Beach needs to get off the ground. She should take a ride on the Ferris Wheel. She won't though: it is far away behind a fence and she would have to struggle through the crowd and they would all stare at her. She might not even know it's there...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: I Live at Radcliffe Let Me Out | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...point, the astronauts swooped to within 47,000 ft. of the moon's surface-not much higher than the altitude at which commercial jets fly over the earth. "We're getting so close," said Stafford, "all you have to do is put your tail wheel down and we're there." As the spacecraft headed back toward earth at week's end, Flight Director Milton Windier summed up the immediate import of the flight, which was designed to test out Snoopy's performance before an actual moon landing: "It's all downhill from here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NINE MILES FROM THE GOAL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...more than a company across the canal?and it would be slaughtered. The reason is that the Russians, anxious to avert a fourth round of the war, have carefully not supplied Nasser with the wherewithal for an offensive strike: the amphibious transports, armored personnel carriers and four-wheel-drive trucks that he would need in order to cross the Sinai. Underscoring their concern that the artillery battles might get out of hand, the Soviets last week dispatched a note to Cairo declaring that the cease-fire should be "strictly carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PAINFUL PRESIDENCY OF EGYPT'S NASSER | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...current clamor began in March in the newsweekly Der Spiegel with a series on the activities of the Soviet KGB. The magazine led off with a detailed account of the espionage activities of Soviet Embassy Counselor Yuri Vorontsov, who had died in a February collision while at the wheel of his black Mercedes 220 in Cologne. Vorontsov, claimed Spiegel, was the KGB boss for West Germany, and it put the finger on Russia's popular press attaché in Bonn, Aleksandr Bogomolov, 46, as Vorontsov's successor. It also made much of his close friendship with the Krupp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Spooks Galore | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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