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When he returned, he handed over a package of "horse," as heroin is known to the trade, retrieved his dog and walked calmly back to the waiting room. Last week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
...November a New York detective got a mysterious telephone call: "If you want one of the biggest gangsters in the country, who is now in dope, look for your old friend W." The cops looked, found 63-year-old Waxey ostensibly a legitimate warehouse manager, actually a big-time heroin wholesaler...
...carry some of the junk himself. One night last week, Waxey took a cab to a dark corner of Manhattan, furtively grabbed a newspaper-wrapped bundle from a man in another car. The cops and the feds swooped down, caught the terrified Waxey with a pound of heroin (worth $200,000). Waxey's accomplice pleaded: "Please, if you've got a heart don't lock Waxey up. I'll pay you anything. This'll kill him." Waxey himself slid to his knees. "Kill me! Let me run and then shoot me!" he sobbed...
...adviser and ten tons of a new insecticide called "Aldrin," the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported last week that the Point Four funds had been well spent. Among the 50,000 infested acres that were saved from destruction: part of Iran's poppy fields, a prime source of heroin...
...Heroin Hunting. The most startling description of the addict's New York came from a talented 25-year-old, who had made up to $245 a week as a musician, composer and arranger, but had turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...