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...over how to reform the operations of the nation's stock-trading business so that it can handle efficiently the diverse needs of more than 32 million investors. The need became obvious when the 1969-70 bear market forced more than a hundred brokerages into financial failure or shotgun mergers. The causes were numerous, but one overriding factor was that Wall Street was still geared to a bygone age of relatively slow trading by individual investors dealing in 100-share lots; the stock exchanges could not cope with the demands of a new era in which big-block trading...
...blood-stained car was found abandoned at Newark Airport, and it was assumed that he had been killed by his abductors. Conducting their own investigation, the Gambinos were also hot on Sentner's trail. After two men riding in a black Cadillac raked his home with shotgun blasts two weeks ago, the terrified Sentner went to the Government with a bizarre tale...
...disarm the citizen and your problems are ended. It sounds so simple and easy. But just try it. Most of the firearms in the U.S. today are owned by hard-working average American people who enjoy hunting and target sport-shooting. I myself have three rifles, one shotgun and two automatic pistols. The availability of these firearms to me is not a stimulus to murder as you suggest...
Four other men attached to the Mob were hit. Bruno Carnevale, a "soldier" in the Carlo Gambino family,* was felled by a shotgun blast near his house in Queens Village, and died with $1,400 still in his pocket. A day later Tommy Ernst, a Staten Island mobster, was fatally wounded. A New Jersey janitor named Frank Ferriano was found in a lower Manhattan parking lot with half his head blown off by a shotgun blast. Hours later Richard Grossman, said to be a credit-card swindler working for the Colombo family, was found in the trunk...
...minority people who ever dream to be free that it can only come through working together. It seems that there is no other way for me to get your attention." With that, Cabell, the black assistant principal of a racially troubled high school just outside Flint, Mich., put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger...