Word: underworlds
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...Mayor Joseph Alioto is suing Look magazine for $12.5 million because of its article linking him with the Mafia. That's no joke, but the federal courtroom dissolved in guffaws when the clerk read a deposition from Witness Barry Goldwater, who figured in the case because a key underworld figure claimed acquaintance with him. He had never heard of alleged Mafioso James Fratianno, said the Senator, but the man's photo looked familiar. "In fact, he looks a little like Agnew...
...minute House speech, Ford reviewed Douglas' nine-year association with the Albert Parvin Foundation, which aids students from underdeveloped countries but had links to Las Vegas gamblers. Though Douglas resigned from the foundation last year and has denied any knowledge of underworld connections. Ford charged that he had improperly given Parvin legal advice while on the court. Ford mentioned Parvin links to Bobby Baker, thus implying the same for Douglas. He scored the Justice's affiliation with the "leftish" Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas...
...last summer's declining stock market, the shares of companies that own casinos in Las Vegas rose as high as gamblers' hopes. They have faded just as fast. A combination of boardroom battles, rumors of underworld links and Government investigations, reports TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood from Las Vegas, have tarnished the investment luster of the gambling industry. The downward slide of casino companies' stocks has left many investors feeling as though they had fed the family fortune into a one-armed bandit...
...enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present home, he so energetically attacked vice and gambling during the 1920s that a squad of Texas Rangers was sent to protect him from underworld assassins...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...