Word: glick
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...former Las Vegas Casino Owner Allen Glick explained, an offer he simply couldn't refuse. In 1978, when the Mafia was leaning on Glick to sell his interest in Vegas' sprawling Stardust casino, Kansas City Mobster Carl ("Tuffy") DeLuna was dispatched to deliver him a chilling message. "He said I might think of my life as expendable, but I might not think of my children's lives as expendable," Glick testified. "Then he read off the names and ages of my sons and said if he did not hear the announcement to sell immediately, my sons would be killed...
...Glick, a wealthy San Diego real estate investor, was a key witness against four organized-crime leaders from Chicago and one from Cleveland in a four-month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
...lead characters, the steadies-to-be Danny and Sandy (remember John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John?), are one of the show's few weak points. The oh-so-pure Sandra Dee (Susie Glick), though competent, is not entirely convincing. Her singing generally seems a bit forced, as if she wanted to wax operatic. Likewise, her acting is perhaps too stiff for her part...
Junior Brent Wilkinson copped the first annual Quincy Cup pool championship with a 2-1 victory over senior Todd Glick in the final of the 30-player tournament last night before a standing room only crowd of 19 in Quincy...
With Informer Agosto dead, speculation on who will testify for the Government in the new case centers on two men not indicted. They are Glick, who lives as a retired multimillionaire on his huge and heavily guarded estate near La Jolla, Calif., and Frank ("Lefty") Rosenthal, who had been paid $250,000 annually by Glick to oversee his casinos, even though Rosenthal's only known previous legitimate business experience was running a Chicago hot-dog stand. A map of Click's estate had been sought by Triggerman DeLuna, according to testimony in the Tropicana case. A bomb exploded...