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...says. And his writing continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...
...promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen. On top of a previous $400 million arms deal with Britain and the U.S., Saudi King Feisal announced fortnight ago that he is buying twelve British-built Hawker Siddeley jets, and plans a military airfield near Qizan, within...
...from its break-up with Russia. China has increased its trade with the West 44% in three years and earns $400 million annually as a basic supplier for Hong Kong. The Chinese pay for their imports, usually in hard cash, by selling what grows naturally: human hair for wigs, camel's hair for coats, pig bristles, soybeans and other vegetables, as well as pig iron and metal ores...
Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...
Died. Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, 66, political liaison man for the Chicago crime syndicate, who first made it to the top of the mob as a labor racketeer (dairies, laundries) in the 1930s and 1940s, in recent years lived luxuriously in Chicago and Key Biscayne, Fla., dodging appearances before Washington crime committees; of a heart attack, four hours after his arrest on a perjury charge; in Chicago...