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...worked their way up and down the rows, a thick layer of dust settled on their polished black boots. For six long, hot hours, the men doggedly checked out the report they had received by phone. Finally, they gave up and went away, convinced that wherever he was, Jimmy Hoffa-the man of the streets and highways-did not lie buried beneath the alien corn...
...week wore on, both the police and the Hoffa family were ready to try almost anything to find the former Teamster boss who had so suddenly vanished on July 30. At week's end an FBI laboratory technician was analyzing some stains found in a car belonging to the family of reported Mafia Leader Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone; there was some fear that the spots might be Hoffa's blood. Other efforts included the hypnotizing of people who had talked to Hoffa shortly before he disappeared, in the hope of coaxing some leads from their memories...
Lucrative Deals. To make matters worse, anonymous phone calls threatened Hoffa's relatives. The general tone, said one federal source, was "You saw what happened to him-you're next." Interpreted very broadly, the calls constituted acts of extortion, a federal crime, and that was enough to allow the FBI to plunge into the case. With hundreds of agents joining squads of state and local policemen already working on the mystery, the hunt for clues turned up a new rogues' gallery of underworld figures who were said to have had an interest in getting Hoffa...
Pointing to the Joan Little trial and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Gregory punctuated his comedy routines with occasional serious notes concerning the "sick, insane, degenerate society we live...
After Richard Fitzsimmons' car was blown up, Hoffa told WWJ-TV in Detroit that no one in the local had had anything to do with the incident. "I'll bet my life on it," he declared. It was a chilling remark. Last week, while Local 299 posted a $25,000 reward for information leading to his return, the family of Jimmy Hoffa waited to see if he had lost...