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...kidnapers had chosen their victims carefully. The two youths were members of wealthy and prominent families in Macao: Fu Iam-kin, 14, was the son of multimillionaire Gambling Magnate Fu Tak-iam, and Antonio de Assis Fong, 22, was the son of the manager of Macao's Central Hotel. The kidnapers sent word to the parents demanding ransom of 700,000 Hong Kong dollars ($122,850 U.S.). But they reckoned not on Gambler Fu Tak-iam. He announced that he would not pay ransom for his son because it would set a bad precedent: he has four wives...
...Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis (no kin to Joe), and he had understood that $190,000 of it was going to the governor-but had got no protection from the state...
...kin to his namesake, former (1932-33) Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey (born Josef Paul Cuckoschay...
...Baring, occasionally dines to the accompaniment of a brassy military band, a London correspondent growled: "If I opened my shirt and showed you my breastbone, you would see it was black and blue from settlers making their points." The settlers have been remarkably successful in estranging their journalistic kith & kin from Britain, and others besides. They lie in wait for them, pounce and start jabbing their forefingers into them before they have had time to sign a hotel register. The points the settlers want to drive home, in loud and often hysterical voices, are mainly three: 1) the Kukes (their...
...kin to Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson...