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Died. Louis ("Little New York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to...
At 2:34 p.m. one day last week, one of the most extraordinary extortion plots in criminal history exploded-literally-in Portland's big (twelve stories), crowded Meier & Frank department store. Just after 2 o'clock a woman had thrust through the credit window an envelope addressed to...
To Jimmy Hoffa, 41, pressure tactics is a way of life. In 1936 he quit a grocery clerk's job to start organizing for the Detroit teamsters' locals. With most of the area's teamsters already signed up when he joined, Hoffa looked for new fields to...
Vested Interest. In Lansing, Mich., after State Representative Manning Hathaway Jr. denounced parking meters because "they are extortion, they are unAmerican, they are totalitarian," the Detroit traffic court noted Hathaway had collected 38 parking tickets in nine years.
Down Three Dark Streets (Edward Small; United Artists), for a change, is one in which the cops are not the robbers. An FBI agent (Kenneth Tobey) is killed while pursuing an inquiry at a private house. Another agent (Broderick Crawford) is assigned to catch the killer. To do that, he...