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...Christian Democratic] Party I have served for eleven years ... I referred the matter to the head of my party, who advised me to play out the game." His late-night visitors, said Santalco, were one of Milazzo's top aides, fast-rising Ludovico Corrao, 32, and a Communist henchman. In Santalco's room at Palermo's Hotel delle Palme, they offered to buy his Assembly vote and that of two other Christian Democrats, promising Santalco $112,000 and a Cabinet post, and $24,000 and lesser jobs for each of his friends. Deputy Santalco had persuaded...
CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...
Your April 13 photograph of Boston's Cardinal Cushing taking the political stump for Senator John Kennedy's henchman implants the kiss of death on the Boston Boy Wonder's presidential hopes...
Moscow's minutes, which sold out within hours, showed that after Bulganin admitted "joining" the "antiparty activities of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov," speaker after speaker rose-obviously in a coordinated assault-to assail his confession as "feeble" and "unconvincing." Said Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, a longtime Khrushchev henchman from the Ukraine: "Bulganin now pretends that he only joined the group at the last minute. This is not true. If Bulganin has in fact repented, then he must disarm himself completely and tell honestly about his subversive work and about the roots that have remained...
...dreams of glory-even more grandiose than his dream of nationwide control of transportation-Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa had another vision: his corruption-riddled union should control the nation's municipal, county and state employees-including the police. Last week, in New York City, a Hoffa henchman, taking his cue from the boss, boldly announced that he was ready to organize the 24,000 members of the New York police department.* Said Teamster Henry Feinstein, 53, who holds down an $8,500-a-year city job as supervisor of transportation in Manhattan: Within a fortnight he would throw...