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...career as a gangster also could provide a plausible motive?revenge. One product of his years as a member of the assassination team of Joseph Profaci, head of a New York family, is a list of victims' relatives?young men orphaned by contract, brothers bound to avenge a family murder???who would like to see Colombo killed. His rise in the Mob hierarchy has also earned him the bitter enmity of former comrades, notably Joseph ("Crazy Joe") Gallo, onetime Profaci triggerman whom Colombo opposed during a bloody gang war in the early...
...many men are hostile?though scarcely to the point of murder???some women are simply puzzled. "I don't know what those women are thinking of," says Posey Carpenter, a Los Angeles real estate broker. "I love the idea of looking delectable and having men whistle at me." Other women, offended by this week's national protest, are setting up counter-demonstration organizations. Mrs. Helen Andelin of Santa Barbara?a mother of eight?urges that Sept. 30 be made a National Celebration of Womanhood Day: each wife should wear her most frilly, feminine dress and should "sing before breakfast," serve...
...Baltimore riots were even more traumatic for Agnew, who had to call out some 5,700 National Guardsmen and ask for nearly 4,800 federal troops to restore order. Agnew suspected a conspiracy, citing a visit to Baltimore by Stokely Carmichael several days before the trouble?and King's murder???as evidence. Within hours after the shooting stopped, he called 100 moderate Negro leaders into his office and gave them a tongue-lashing for not having counteracted Carmichael's fulminations. "You were intimidated by veiled threats," the Governor told them. "You were stung by insinuations that you were Mr. Charlie...
...DOLL'S TRUNK MURDER???Helen Reilly?Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Seven strangers, each with motive, each suspecting each of the murder in a snow-bound lonely farmhouse...
VALCOUR MEETS MURDER???Rufus King ?Crime Club ($2). Eight hard-boiled characters, some virtuous, remain unreal through storm, fire, double death and transportation of stolen gems about the Canadian border; and Valcour remains Lieutenant Valcour...