Word: musclemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the car voluntarily. He had good reason to trust O'Brien; the Hoffas had raised him after the death of his father. His mother had been a close friend of Mrs. Hoffa's. Brill reports that also in the car were two of the three musclemen from Tony Pro's New Jersey Teamsters ranks assigned to carry out the killing: Gabriel Briguglio, 36, his brother Salvatore, 47, and Thomas Andretta, 38. Brill, however, does not mention a fourth mobster regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in the slaying, Thomas Principe...
Arnold: The Education of Bodybuilder is a colossal disappointment. It is divided into three parts; the first stringing together simplistic accounts of his competitions. There is no trace of the swagger and sophistication which now make up his act. With his confessions of idolizing Hollywood musclemen and until recently, his inability to appreciate women as anything beyond "sexual tools," one wonders if this book is another one of his dimensions, Schwarzenegger the neanderthal...
...Star Dolly Parton. Invited by Photographer Annie Leibovitz to join Dolly in a picture-taking session for Rolling Stone, Arnold rushed back from a visit to Israel to oblige. The two got along so well that they finished off six bottles of champagne between poses. Dolly, 31, who admires musclemen "for their spunk and endurance," was very impressed with Arnold. Arnold, 30, found Dolly "the nicest weight I have lifted in a long time." Says he: "I did a one-arm curl with her. She was about 110 Ibs., good resistance. My biceps felt very good after that...
Crisp Prose. "I was hurting far more than I would have believed possible," the trainer hero of Bonecrack reflects, after being worked over in Chapter I by two mysterious men in masks. The tone is typical of Francis. Though his people are regularly, often bizarrely, set upon by musclemen intent on altering the result of a horse race, their dramatically understated encounters somehow do not seem sadistic. Francis' heroes, among other things, have been hung up to freeze in icy tack rooms (Nerve) and had a broken hand rebroken with a poker (Odds Against). Yet they regularly turn...
...hair of blacks; he had his own hair cut by a black barber to show his lack of prejudice. Actually, his motive seemed to be to recruit black toughs for his gang. When he got out of prison in March of 1971, he began hiring blacks as "button men" (musclemen)-pricking the ethnic sensibilities of other Mafiosi. He had openly toured Little Italy with four black henchmen a few days before he was hit. Some officials think that may have hastened execution of the contract...