Word: gangland
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...rubout was executed neat Chicago gangland style. Two armed men -wearing ski masks and carrying a walkie-talkie to get word from a lookout -slithered into Rose's Sandwich Shop on the hairy, scary West Side. "Up against the wall!" they ordered the eight people inside. One of the gunmen then shoved a twelve-gauge shotgun under the chin of Richard Cain, 49. The hit man fired two blasts, blowing away Cain's handsome face. The killers quickly fled, accompanied by what witnesses later said was a mysterious "woman in blue...
...DEAD is a scurvy mob melo drama that nevertheless presents sever al new insights into the manners and morals of gangland. We note, for ex ample, that persons affiliated with the Mafia have a certain delicacy when referring to bathroom matters. "Can I use the powder room?" a sultry lady inquires of a beau. A bomber explains his eagerness to escape an impending explosion by gesturing toward the facilities, hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic...
...informer, testified that the plotting veterans had traded "dope for weapons." He related that once Defendant John W. Kniffen had demonstrated how to use a crossbow by firing a steel shaft through a door. He also claimed that Camil had asked him to "fill a contract," presumably for a gangland-style murder...
...belongings. At his call, sheriff's deputies arrested the pair, and they languished in jail for days before disclosing that they were working for a Miami detective agency. Three years later, some embarrassed CIA officials admitted that they had staged the raid as a favor to their gangland spook Giancana...
...York City politics. He managed to elude any major convictions until his reluctance to testify fully before Senator Estes Kefauver's crime investigating committee cost him a 14-month prison term for contempt of Congress. He later served a 31/2-year term for income tax evasion. After an unsuccessful gangland attempt on his life in 1957, and a long, successful battle against deportation, Costello spent his last decade in quiet retirement, cultivating his Long Island garden...