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...cool toward the press as he is toward his opponents, and Hillenbrand found that "getting him to talk was a complicated task calling for the patience of a snake tamer." They first met in Denver last July. In New York City, the two drank beer in an East Side tavern, then shared a few games of chess. "He showed no pity," says Hillenbrand. "He would come crashing down the board, picking off my pieces with cries of 'Crunch...
Lost Lustre. The decline began late last year when FBI investigators discovered that some Chicago policemen were involved in a scheme to shake down tavern owners in the city's North West Side Austin police district. Nine policemen -including two lieutenants and a sergeant-and two former policemen were indicted. Four have been convicted. Fifteen additional policemen were suspended by Conlisk after they refused to talk to the grand jury about the shakedown operation. The scheme may have spread to other areas of the city; one high-ranking policeman quit his job when federal probers started looking into possible...
...Tavern Stops. In Italy alone, 26 carabinieri have been killed in the past 18 months; three were blown to bits two weeks ago when they investigated an abandoned and booby-trapped automobile near the Yugoslav border. In Milan last week bombs were set off at the offices of four U.S. companies in protest against "American imperialism." A group called the Red Brigade was suspected. Three Italians, dressed unaccountably in World War II German uniforms, were arrested in northern Italy carrying eleven pounds of explosives; they had stopped frequently at taverns along the road they were traveling and had managed...
...what you can learn," he said, "about this shooting in the--Tavern on Columbia Road. Apparently a kid from Roslindale was murdered when some guy came in off the street and opened fire in the bar last night. It sounds like a freak shooting. Interview the family. Do you know Harry? Harry'll take pictures. He's waiting for you. Here are the clips...
WITH THAT he put a batch of clippings from the Sunday dailies and the wire services on my desk. They told of a shooting which had occured late Saturday night in a crowded neighborhood tavern. The clippings said police knew of no motive. They named the dead man and identified him as a 21-year-old, unmarried, white male, who was also the third of seven children, a utility worker, and a former resident of the neighborhood. He had, according to the clips, come to the tavern with a friend and was sitting apparently peacefully at the bar when...