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WASHINGTON, March 22--Senate racket probers today listed $709,420.14 of Teamsters Union funds as lost, misappropriated, unaccounted for, or questionably used--in operations on the West Coast alone...
WASHINGTON, March 14--The government moved swiftly today--with a grand jury investigation--in the case of Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters Union bigshot accused of a plot to plant a spy in the midst of the Senate's racket probers...
...riding he was taking from an Aussie crowd in Adelaide, Pro Tennis Champion Pancho Gonzalez not only lost a match to Ken Rosewall (4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-1), but lost his head as well. In the fourth set Pancho blew up, heaved his racket at the umpire, broke a microphone and sent spectators skittering as the racket bounced into the stands. Still unstrung a few days later, Pancho was beaten again by Rosewall for third money in a pro tournament. Tournament winner: Pancho Segura over Frank Sedgman...
...gang, whose records range from gun-carrying to robbery to narcotics, was headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...longer would they have to throttle back for their pass above the Will Rogers pylon. They could let down as fast as they wanted to - provided that they stayed above 5,000 ft. so that the shattering racket of a "sonic boom" would not un nerve spectators or jostle instruments...