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...Johnny Dio operates like an iceberg," says one rackets expert. "You never know how much is going on below the surface, but you know it spells trouble...
...precocious teen-age pupil of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, urbane, well-tailored Iceberg Johnny Dio, 43 (real name: Dioguardi), was belatedly packed off for a three-year stretch at Sing Sing by Racket Buster Tom Dewey in 1937. The charge: extorting protection money from garment district truckers and cloak-and-suiters. Long out of stir and prospering by 1950, Dio became a smoother thug, refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months...
...troubles are not over: this week in Washington, members of the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, already proved specialists in underwater demolition, will call on Iceberg Johnny Dio to explain just exactly how he used his paper locals to help Midwest Teamster Jimmy Hoffa win control of New York City's 125,000 drivers...
...iceberg turned over it closed all issue...
...much of R-W's current work is military that the company's product line, like an iceberg, is 90% invisible. Eventually R-W hopes that almost everything will have a peacetime application. On its production line last week was what R-W claims is the most versatile airborne computer for its size ever built. Weighing only 175 Ibs., the transistorized brain can multiply as rapidly (4,000 calculations per second) and remember as many instructions (2,000) as a room-sized computer of 19 tons. Late this summer R-W will put on the market a civilian...