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...underworld," whose nervous hands and hoarse voice became familiar to the nation's television viewers during the Senate crime hearings of 1951; following a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the classic pattern, Costello graduated from teen-age street gangs to bootlegging to control of a national slot-machine racket with estimated annual revenues of $2 billion. By investing widely in police, legislators and legitimate businesses, "Uncle Frank" became a power in New York City politics. He managed to elude any major convictions until his reluctance to testify fully before Senator Estes Kefauver's crime investigating committee cost...
...deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage as a sales tactic...
National champion Peter Briggs will play in the number one slot for Harvard against Graham Arader. Briggs has recovered from the stomach troubles which almost kept him from playing in the Pennsylvania match, but he continues to be hampered by a groin pull...
Carter had a bad first run in the giant slalom at Stowe, and wound up 22nd, but Steele moved in to grab the sixth slot in the race...
...Navy Crimson number-one man Peter Briggs trounced his opponent Randy Fisher in three straight games; and numbers three and four men Glen Whitman and Neil Vosters also took 3-0 victories. But an ailing Andy Wiegand, at the number two slot, was extended to five games by Navy's Craig Dawson, before he took the match...