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Bobby Murrah, the official Blue Devil who sports all the accoutrements of an underworld basketball fanatic including Blue Horns and a Blue Trident, was the only person on the basketball court available for an interview after Duke demolished Villanova yesterday...
...Grow old along with me!" said Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just...
...Novelist Jeffrey Caine attempts to show where Heathcliff was during the roughly three years he was absent from Wuthering Heights. L'Estrange suggests in passing that he was in Liverpool, working on the docks. Caine insists that he went to London and made a fortune in the underworld...
Siavage, executive director of the State Commission of Investigation: "Nobody's claiming that we can eliminate organized crime." But the New Jersey Casino Control Commission is trying to keep the casinos as free of underworld links as possible. Applicants for a casino license are required to fill out an 83-page form, spelling out their personal backgrounds, business history and sources of financing. Then they must go through investigations lasting six to nine months. Only one application, from Resorts International, has been received thus far. The commission is also drawing up stringent regulations for casino operations, including an accounting...
Thus pressure is growing for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to move faster, before any investors go bust, or turn to mob moneylenders. The danger, of course, is that a combination of greed and need will overcome caution and good intentions, making it easier for the underworld to penetrate legal gambling in Atlantic City...