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...subpoenas in what Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold expansively called "the most massive investigation of organized crime in the history of this country." Later Gold climbed into his aquamarine Cadillac and led two busloads of reporters to a gangland "summit headquarters"-a grimy, nondescript house trailer in a Brooklyn junkyard called Bargain Auto Parts Inc. Then, standing on a box inside the two-room trailer, Gold stripped away a section of ceiling insulation and tenderly removed a tiny microphone and a transmitter slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. The bugging device, Gold explained, had been eavesdropping on the Mafia...
...investigation began in December when police, disguised as Christmas-tree salesmen, set up shop across the street from a Brooklyn bar frequented by mobsters. The surveillance led police to the junkyard trailer where Paul Vario, a capo in the Mafia family of Carmine Tramunti, either met or conferred on three phones with, according to Gold, "all the top members of organized crime." Gold, alluding to an "imaginative and innovative approach," is not saying precisely how the bugging device was planted, but it is known that an FBI informer who had unchallenged access to the trailer played a crucial role...
...insurance ($1,350), parking and tolls ($1,800) and taxes ($1,319). And that does not include the average eleven new tires an owner is likely to buy on what the report calls a car's "100,000-mile, ten-year trip from the assembly line to the junkyard...
...itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...
...been filling orders from small head shops and boutiques as well as from large enterprises like the May Co. and Neiman-Marcus (which sells a floor-stand model for $75, a table version for $51). Starting his business in 1970 when he bought two meters from a junkyard for $1.50 each, Bromiley has reconditioned and sold 1,200 of them, most purchased from municipalities like San Fernando (for $4 each) and Beverly Hills ($3.50 each). Bromiley's profit margin may soon be sharply reduced. Says Ronald Weaver, purchasing agent for Beverly Hills: "Next time we sell old meters...