Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roselli described how he and his longtime mentor, onetime Chicago Mafia Chief Momo Salvatore ("Sam") Giancana, had been recruited by the CIA in the early '60s to assassinate Fidel Castro. It made a kind of amoral sense for the agency to turn to the Mob: when the Cuban leader took power, he closed down the Mafia's big moneymaking operations in Havana; Roselli had been running the swank Sans Souci gambling casino there. Roselli told the Senators that he also saw the killing of Castro as a "patriotic" endeavor, something he could do for his country. Both poisoned...
...fired at close range into his face and neck. As it happened, Giancana was due to be called before the same Senate committee. The FBI now believes that Giancana was killed not because of his CIA-Castro connection but as a result of a bitter feud over dividing the Mob's spoils in Chicago...
Died. Meyer ("Mickey") Cohen, 62, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los 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...
When the marchers neared the park, they were met by 1,500 whites, including many beer-sotted youths who hurled jeers, curses and debris. Only 300 policemen were on hand, half as many as were needed to keep the marchers and the mob apart. One cop was felled when a 3-lb. chunk of concrete hit his head, and another was struck in the groin by a missile; 16 policemen and 16 civilians were injured. The demonstrators huddled in terror at the edge of the park while rocks rained down on them. After a few minutes they fled behind...
...film maker placed a newspaper ad requesting unpaid volunteers for a crowd scene at the foot of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this is a mob of New Yorkers!") Though souvenir hunters managed to remove a few feet of Kong's $85,000 horsehair coat during the two nights of filming, order ultimately prevailed, and Actress Jessica Lange was able...