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Strolling Through. Huivenaar, who is now in an Amsterdam prison, began his career peddling narcotics, abortion pills and second-hand cars in the Amsterdam underworld. Since 1962, he has concentrated on smuggling refugees out of Eastern Europe. At first he free lanced, hiding would-be escapees in se cret compartments of automobiles and bringing them across borders for $125 apiece. As Eastern European nations steadily tightened border-security mea sures, the old escape methods - cars or tunnels - became unreliable. So, as Huivenaar tells it, he linked up with a Berliner named Wolfgang Loeffler, 44, and their techniques soon became much...
...coincides with the rise of the Cosa Nostra itself and reads like a kind of how-to-succeed manual for middle-echelon mobsters. At 18, Valachi was already a veteran "wheelman" (getaway driver), but he made the mistake of joining an "Irish gang." That move so displeased the Italian underworld that while Valachi was serving time for theft, he received as chastisement a knife wound that ran under his heart and around to his back, requiring 38 stitches...
Patman's probe focused on that mystique-shrouded feature of Swiss banking, the anonymous numbered account. Robert M. Morgenthau, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, testified that such accounts have become increasingly popular with Americans. Some who use them are underworld hoodlums, but many more are otherwise ordinary businessmen who play the Swiss numbers game to cheat Washington out of "tax revenues in the many millions of dollars." The various ways in which such accounts are used to avoid income taxes, said Morgenthau, "are almost as numerous as the ways of earning money" (see box next...
...story is from the legend of Orpheus. Nicholas Urfe (Michael Caine), an overread, underbred London dropout, accepts a teaching job on a Greek island. In Caine's adroit impersonation, Urfe explores sensuality from Alfie to Zeta, but along the way he stumbles into a labyrinthine underworld presided over by an occult genius-The Magus. His journey begins one day when he finds a book of poems open to the lines from Little Gidding. They are to become the theme of his life...
BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco detective in this modish thriller about current life styles in the criminal underworld...