Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadowy underworld of boxing, the wise guys knew that the man to see when a fight was to be fixed-or even scheduled-was a thug named Frankie Carbo, a flat-eyed hood with a shock of silvery hair. Nobody called him "Frankie." They called him "Mr. Grey." But when the law went looking for him, nobody could remember a thing about him -where he lived, what he looked like, or even when he had last been seen...
...messier side while supplying the brainpower for Jim Norris' monopolistic International Boxing Club (dissolved by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January). Last week, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down an indictment that lumped together Gibson and Carbo, plus a dull-eyed Philadelphia thug named Blinky Palermo and two lesser Los Angeles musclemen. Main charges: extortion and conspiracy to extort...
Miguel Antonio Enrique Francisco Estrada (John Saxon), a first-generation Puerto Rican-New Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from Puerto Rico and full of sugar cane." Will he have one lump or two? He hesitates-then takes the whole bowl...
...Bill Kilcoyne (played to the hilt by Old Pro Van Heflin), a rough-hewn factory worker whom circumstance elects as first president of his local. An idealist to begin with, he sells out for a mess of spoilage (a union vice-presidency) by making a deal with a union thug named Tony Russo. Before long, Kilcoyne lands in the deadly end-justifies-the-means trap, winds up condoning mutilation and murder, puts union funds into such investments as race tracks and silk ties. By the time a Senate committee gets at him, he is powerful, self-assured, and cockily forgetful...
...organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders were meeting, a vastly powerful outcast from their ranks was dramatically demonstrating the vital U.S. need of new labor legislation. In Brownsville, Texas, Jimmy Hoffa, president of the thug-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters, threatened anarchy if the Kennedy-Ervin bill is made law. Cried Hoffa to a regional Teamsters' convention: "If such a law is passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that...