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...small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy, dragged him through a bonfire, killed his mules and burned his wagons...
...candy from the corner store," Frankie recalls. "Then little things from the five-and-dime, then change from cash registers, and finally, we were up to stealing bicycles." Pretty soon Frank was involved in some rough gang wars. He got so good at planning jobs that his awe-struck henchmen called him "Angles," and he had plenty of bad examples to follow, pretty close to home. The streets he played in were full of bootleggers and triggermen; there were even a couple of neighborhood gang killings...
...could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since the death of Kyuichi Tokuda (TIME, Aug. 8), and two of his henchmen. Looking like a dapper but tired businessman, Nozaka approached the microphone, told the audience that after five years underground he had come back to take up his duties on the Communist Party's Central Committee. Afterwards Nozaka told newsmen that his hideout had been in Japan, not Peking, added that...
After LIFE Photographer Joe Scherschel and Reporter Hank Suydam took pictures (with a concealed camera) in one of Fertitta's gambling houses, the boss and two henchmen followed the LIFE men to their hotel. Photographer Scherschel took his film upstairs while Reporter Suydam encountered Fertitta and his two strong-arm men in the lobby. Fertitta demanded an explanation of what Suydam and Scherschel had been doing, suddenly smashed Suydam in the face. By the time Suydam had picked himself off the floor, Fertitta had switched tactics, tried to stuff a $20 bill into the reporter's pocket...
...early '40s, then became government-coddled racketeers under Batista's successors. Last week, tipped off that El Colorado was up to his old conspiratorial tricks, the cops swooped down on his hiding place in the suburb of Santos Suárez, killed him and one of his henchmen. On the premises the raiders found 70 submachine guns, 40 rifles, scores of pistols-a sizable arsenal for a man to have lying around the house, even in Cuba...