Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steep. The next day a man telephoned Don Carlo's home and said that Manny had been kidnaped and was being held for a $350,000 ransom. Following instructions, Gambino sent his men racing off to a phone booth in New Jersey, but they somehow lost their way and arrived too late to receive another message. Four days later the deal was renegotiated; Don Carlo claimed that $350,000 was steep and wondered if the kidnapers would be satisfied with $60,000. After a day of haggling, the abductors agreed. The FBI, which had got wind of the goings...
...kidnaping, he confessed, was a hoax engineered by Manny, who hoped to bilk Uncle Carlo out of the ransom so that he could run off with his blonde girl friend. Sentner said that he assisted Manny in return for having his $40,000 debt erased from the Gambino books. Sentner, who enlisted four friends for the job, claims that Manny was alive when he last saw him but that he has no idea of his whereabouts. Manny's girl friend, who has secluded herself in her apartment, says, "If Manny ran off, it certainly wasn't with...
...strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis. The $500,000 ransom seemed almost a relief-as did a quiet and temporarily successful $200,000 holdup of a United jet in Reno. Today the most frequently-and falsely-coupled words are "senseless" and "violence." But violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity occurs only to the victims...
...other hand, a 963-ft. ocean liner contains more hiding places for anyone who wants to stow a bomb aboard. Last week the British liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was in mid-ocean when an extortionist telephoned Cunard Lines and demanded a queen's ransom of $350,000. Six bombs were hidden aboard the Queen and ready to detonate, the caller warned. They had been placed there by an ex-convict and a terminal cancer victim who were fatalistically prepared to be blown sky-high along with the ship's 1,481 passengers and 900 crewmen...
...Rafael, Calif. Goldstein and Mulroy were cub reporters on the Chicago Daily News in 1924 when 14-year-old Bobby Franks was kidnaped. Keeping one step ahead of police investigators, Goldstein identified a newly discovered body as that of Bobby in time to prevent a $10,000 ransom payment, then succeeded in tracing the ransom note back to Law Student Nathan Leopold's typewriter. Goldstein spent the next 40 years as a correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...