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...calls constituted acts of extortion, a federal crime, and that was enough to allow the FBI to plunge into the case. With hundreds of agents joining squads of state and local policemen already working on the mystery, the hunt for clues turned up a new rogues' gallery of underworld figures who were said to have had an interest in getting Hoffa out of the way. Conducting its own manhunt, the Hoffa family went so far as to ask Mickey Cohen, the former Los Angeles mobster, to make some inquiries among his old contacts. "I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Hoffa Search: 'Looks Bad Right Now' | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world to take a new, mostly false look at prostitution. Her book took the profession out of the underworld and executive suites People may have groaned and snickered, but they read the book...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: The Prostitution of Prostitution | 8/8/1975 | See Source »

Sunday's New York Times reported the article as one that "perhaps will be of more help to underworld figures who never finished high school than to Harvard Graduates...

Author: By Scott F. Smith, | Title: Author Says Review Article Won't Aid Computer Theft | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

Edward Pierce, master criminal, aims to snaffle ?12,000 in old bullion bound for the British troops in the Crimea. Playing between the parlors of the rich and the Dickensian dens of the criminal underworld, the aristocratic thief outwits crushers (cops), noses (informers) and Establishment nibs to assemble the four keys needed to grab the gold. By subversion, bribery and tricks far dirtier than the king's men ever dreamed of, the ringleader and his scruffy accomplices come within a sniff of the swag, only to meet their greatest obstacle: an obscure law of physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crushers and Subgumshoes | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

Giancana became boss of the Chicago Mafia family in 1955, and ruled a three-state empire of some 1,500 Mafiosi who ran gambling, narcotics, prostitution, loan sharking and other underworld ventures. At the height of his power, Giancana lived relatively modestly in Oak Park with his three daughters-his wife died in 1954-but vacationed on a lavish scale: Miami Beach and Europe in the winter, Paradise Valley near Las Vegas in the summer. While visiting Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1960, the don noticed Singer Phyllis McGuire standing at a blackjack table, seemingly bewildered by the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAFIA: The Demise of a Don | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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