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...with the Eyes. Riesel, who is built like a banty rooster (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs., with a 42-in. chest) and has a disposition to match, does not consider his blindness a handicap. He lay in bed for six weeks after the night in 1956 when a thug, hired by labor racketeers whom Riesel had been writing about, threw six ounces of acid in his eyes. All the while, he vowed to get back to his office and on the job. "They knocked me out for six weeks," he says of his enemies. "And that...
...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...