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...second try, the anxious assassins pulled too soon-before the noose had fallen completely over Resnick's head. The rope caught the bridge of his nose, ripping the skin. Resnick pulled it down across his throat, and as the killers pulled once more, he emitted a short gasp. For more than three minutes, the young men heaved like draft horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul...
...north of Phoenix. The car stopped on a deserted stretch of flat hardpan, screened by a few cacti and greasewood shrubs, and its five occupants got out: four young Negroes and a short, once-paunchy white man in a brown suit that was now much too big. Samuel L. Resnick, 61, a retired jeweler, looked around and squashed a Marlboro into the sand. He had an appointment with death. He knew...
...Negroes pulled an 18-ft. length of manila rope from the car and looped it in a single strand around Resnick's neck. The four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees...
...Milton Resnick: "It could be said that art is not visual and that this is the most important facet for an art that does not appeal to the eye. I mistrust myself as an 'eye,' and in general feel unsympathetic to anyone...
Only Joe Noble, Bob Foster, and Bob Gilmor could advance beyond the preliminaries. Noble, at 147, scored a quick pin over Don Resnick of Temple in the first round, decisioned Yale's captain, Phil Hepner, 6 to 1 in the second, but lost in the quarterfinals, 9 to 0, to Lehigh's Dick Santora...