Word: tropicana
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...federal laws, the FBI began building cases that could stand up. Last July, the legal snooping, aided greatly by the testimony of Joseph Agosto, who turned Government informer and described his supervision of the skimming, produced federal convictions of five mobsters for siphoning off proceeds of Las Vegas' Tropicana casino. "You gotta be a thief to steal your own goddam money," Agosto had complained in one taped conversation. He died of a heart attack shortly after the Tropicana trial...
...been paid $250,000 annually by Glick to oversee his casinos, even though Rosenthal's only known previous legitimate business experience was running a Chicago hot-dog stand. A map of Click's estate had been sought by Triggerman DeLuna, according to testimony in the Tropicana case. A bomb exploded under Rosenthal's Cadillac last year. He escaped with slight injuries and moved to California...
...turning to food products too. In Minneapolis, 14-year-old Marlon Barrow fell ill after drinking chocolate milk from a carton that proved, on analysis, to contain traces of sodium hydroxide, a caustic chemical. In Juno Beach, Fla., Policeman Harry Browning, 27, began vomiting within seconds of drinking Tropicana orange juice that could have been injected with insecticide. In the Detroit area, two razor blades and one nail were found in packages of Ball Park Franks within 24 hours last week...
...signs of restlessness were there. After returning from the road, Waits moved out of his long-time abode at the Tropicana Motel, now the stopover spot for spiky-haired English punk bands. Waits exited the place after one too many magazine articles had mentioned his residence there, resulting in one too many adoring fans knocking on his door at four in the morning. He moved to an apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard. Then to a house in Silver Lake. From there he slept in a series of seedy motels until the day he headed for the Big Apple...
...much for new urban landscapes. Has he abandoned all resolve and returned to his digs at the Tropicana? "No, I was staying in another motel -- a little Vietnam. I've found another apartment...