Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police walking slowly through the cornfield were paying little attention to the rustling crop that surrounded them. Their heads were down, their eyes focused sharply on the tilled earth of the field 100 miles southwest of Detroit. Gradually, as they worked their way up and down the rows, a thick layer of dust settled on their polished black boots. For six long, hot hours, the men doggedly checked out the report they had received by phone. Finally, they gave up and went away, convinced that wherever he was, Jimmy Hoffa-the man of the streets and highways...
...family, show that he accepted a specific Giacalone-Provenzano proposition in late July. On July 30, the day he vanished, his office calendar bears the notation "TG-2 p.m.-Red Fox." Apparently expecting to meet Tony Giacalone, Hoffa went to the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township outside Detroit-and then disappeared. The last word from him was a phone call to his wife Josephine at 2:30. "I wonder where the hell Tony is," Hoffa said. "I'm waiting...
...afternoon that Hoffa vanished, both Giacalone and Provenzano were on prominent display elsewhere. Tony Jack made an appearance in the steam rooms of the Southfield Athletic Club near Detroit, and Tony Pro hobnobbed with Teamsters at union locals in Hoboken...
...Girl. Still, authorities learned that O'Brien had had his differences with Hoffa within the past year. O'Brien admits quarreling with Hoffa in November when he wanted to run against David E. Johnson, a Hoffa stalwart, for the presidency of Detroit's powerful Local 299. Last month O'Brien married a go-go girl, a match that did not receive the full blessing of Hoffa, who has his puritanical side. Law officials were also interested in learning much more about reports that O'Brien was heavily in debt-perhaps by as much...
...money that was rolling in by the 1950s, Finley was not satisfied. "I wanted a team in the worst way," he recalls. His first four bids?for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and California Angels?were either too little or too late. In 1960 he finally bought control of the Kansas City Athletics for $2 million. It was a large price for a last-place team...