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Profession: Gangster Biography: Nicknamed "Crazy Joe", Joe Gallo was a well known New York City gangster for the Profaci crime family, which later became the Colombo crime family. Gallo rose as an enforcer for the Profaci family, becoming rich controlling various businesses. It seems likely he was the gunman behind the assassination of Murder Inc.

We have lived with it for half a century, and still what happened that day in Dallas is shocking beyond almost anything else in American historyby shocking, I mean it hits like a blast of electrical current and stupefies. One minute the President of the United States is smiling and waving. Mr. President, you cant

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that shops within the city, public and private offices, schools, banks, and markets were operating hitch-free. NAN also reports that despite the absence of protesters, a large number of security personnel were seen in all major streets, roundabouts, government institutions, banks and major parks.

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant has been asked to step down from a judges' panel for an animated film festival set to begin in Los Angeles this weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. An online petition that called for Bryant's ouster from the panel cited a sexual assault allegation he faced in 2003. The

Compliments to the Chef Sir: I just this minute brought TIME in from the mailbox, and had to thank you for it even before I read your cover story on Julia Child [Nov. 25] Her French Chef, on WTTW, is a regular in our house. Even the childrenfive of them, 14 down to fourprefer it