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TOPKAPI. Director Jules Dassin (Rififi) lightens larceny with laughter as Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov head a crook's tour of exotic Istanbul in pursuit of four fabulous emeralds...
...become so vituperative, in fact, that South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, himself a notable rough-and-tumble campaigner and a strong Barry Goldwater partisan, rose in the Senate last week to decry its "low-level, schoolyard" tactics. Complained Mundt: "What kind of madness is upon us? Ignoramus, crook, warmonger, demagogue, trigger-happy, vote-thief - these are some of the terms we hear booted about by candidates for President of the greatest country in the world." But there is still time, he said, "to restore some degree of dignity and decency." The Essentials. So far neither candidate has shown...
After the turbulence of the Revolutionary War, people swarmed into the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys. They found no land of their dreams but a forbidding forest. The favorite rendezvous of almost every crook in the region was a cave on the banks of the Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters...
...pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces him to buy a new one every month. Both the jug and the stovepipe-a huge crook-necked whistle Richmond invented himself-are played by puckering up and blowing like hell. Three jug tunes in a row get Richmond so dizzy that he has taken to wearing a pair of steel-rimmed glasses with blue lenses so he won't look funny...
...weeks the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations received instructions in the organization of American crime from an experienced crook, Joseph Valachi. The Senators' desire to expand the horizons of their knowledge cannot be criticized; the use of the Senate as a forum for Valachi can. Neither the informational nor the legislative functions of Congressional committees justifies Valachi's appearance...