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Ducks & Beeps. At length when 43-year-old Johnny Dio took the stand, he was a vision from an old George Raft movie-plaid summer suit, white shirt, dark, grey-flecked hair. He gave himself a final reassuring pat of his breast handkerchief when one woman cooed, "He's beautiful." Predictably, Dio had nothing to say in reply to 140 questions from the committee-except 140 Fifth Amendment refusals, read in a low voice from a typed statement...
Then, expressionlessly, he listened as the committee played recordings of two wire-tapped phone conversations made in 1955, after Dio supposedly had left the labor movement. One tap convinced listeners that Dio was still playing a heavy hand in extortion ("I'm telling him to put the pickets back on"). The other showed that Dio is a cog of sorts in the Hoffa machinery, which includes such officials as Teamster Organizer George Baldanzi. Teamsters' Eastern Conference Chairman Tom Flynn, and St. Louis Teamster Boss Harold Gibbons. And it also showed that one Tony "Ducks" Corallo, a mean-sounding...
...Dio: I didn't have no intention to come in, but I could come in, Tony...
...Dio: What...
...Dio: That dirty, rotten son of a beep...