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...Harvard stage as Carr, Milo's chum, and the only regret about his part is that it is too short. William Leach brings a kind of manic power and an eloquent voice to Judge Gaunt, and Donald James Campbell renders an eerie, effective portrait of Shadow, the underworld sidekick. Unfortunately, his boss, John Britt as Trock, just about chews the scenery in his overcooked attempt to play the heavy. At times, Britt sounds as if he were imitating John Wayne-not a good thing to do in a serious play...
...Jersey Teamster boss. Ruler of the Newark docks. Feared Mafia avenger. Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 61, is all of these and more. In fact, his underworld influence is so vast that some Justice Department officials regard him as the nation's most powerful racketeer...
DIED. Joseph A. Colombo Sr., 54, Brooklyn Mafia chieftain who became the outspoken founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League; as a result of gunshot wounds suffered at a 1971 league rally in Manhattan; in Newburgh, N.Y. After a lackluster youth as a petty criminal in the underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them...
There have been a number of books about this famous "tickle," the London underworld's euphemism for unlawfully separating the owner from his property. Malcolm Fewtrell, the Buckinghamshire detective superintendent assigned to the case, was the first to title his account of the crime The Train Robbers. The principal distinction of Piers Paul Read's similarly named book is that its author is also a record holder of sorts. In 1974 the paperback rights to Alive, his bestseller about the Andes plane crash victims who survived on protein obtained from their dead comrades, sold for $1.2 million...
...exhaustive hunt for Moro and his captors continued. Police threw everything into the search, including dogs and helicopters. Military and police roadblocks created long but patient queues on the autostrade. Not so patient was the tone of a message sent to Rome's daily Il Messaggero. Italian underworld bosses, supposedly annoyed that the intensive police presence was hurting business, issued an "ultimatum" demanding Moro's release by 4 p.m. last Thursday -or else the boys from the mob would see to it that their colleagues behind bars would bump off Red Brigades members who were in prison...