Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope for snipping the Chinese Connection lies in internecine gang violence. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, rival triads cannot peaceably split the spoils. At least twelve Chinese have been murdered in vendettas, which began last year with the killing of Chung Mon, a 55-year-old kingpin of the traffic. European narcs are now hoping for the type of squealer's revenge that helped smash the dope-dealing Corsican Mafia of Marseille in the early 1970s...
...Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed as the result of being hit over the head with a piece of pipe by a fellow inmate at the Atlanta federal penitentiary...
...this was not to be, for Radcliffe jumped on the Badgers for a two-seat lead after only ten strokes, and slowly lengthened their lead to a full length by the end of the race. Again, the 'Cliffe is the kingpin of women's collegiate towing...
...history: "I don't get shook up over these things, the city won't blow up, the sun won't rise in the west.... I've been through these things before. It's all part of the game." But this time it was all over for the Cambridge kingpin. He stayed on to run for re-election as a councilman again in 1967, but failed to finish in the top three for the first time in a number of years and retired to his practice rather than run again...
...Third Man is the co-feature on the Goodbye bill at the Welles, and this is one of the most wonderful mystery movies ever made. Orson Welles plays a blackmarket kingpin who is killed in an accident (or is he?) and Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...