Word: ganglander
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...sending B-girls home. Mapping a massive assault on Singapore's notorious gangsterism, police debated issuing identification cards to Singapore's 7,000 known hoods and pimps. The immediate, unexpected result: for the first time in memory, a full week went by without a kidnaping, extortion or gangland rumble reported...
...weddings, wakes and funerals, Smith says. "I get a good idea of who's in the mob and whom they're dealing with, and what's new." Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat...
...sophisticated script, which gets such a good shake from Wilder's direction, concerns the flight of two musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Harvard's Own Jack Lemmon, from certain liquidation by Chicago mobsters. Witnesses to a gangland slaying reminiscent of the St.Valentine's Day Massacre, the disguised Curtis and Lemmon light out for Miami with an all-girl band. As gents of lusty instincts, the proximity to pulchritudinous musicians strains their ambition to remain disguised, but somehow they persevere. Curtis eventually executes some fancy footwork to win Miss Monroe, and despite every effort to avoid it, Lemmon wins...
With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
...gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...