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Mellowest Tones. Federal authorities think the victims may include Eli Zeccardi, 67, underboss of the Genovese clan, and his top associate, Dominick Dequatro, 55; both have disappeared in the past month. Officials say the disappearances may be connected with the rise in the family of Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, 49. An ex-boxer, Gigante won lasting notoriety as the gunman who unsuccessfully tried to liquidate Mafia "Prime Minister" Frank Costello in 1957. The investigators doubt that Gigante is acting...
...other hand, police speculate that because Zeccardi's family received demands for payment of $200,000-never made-he was kidnaped by non-Mafia freelancers, and may have died of a heart attack; he suffered from a heart ailment. Whatever the case, the violence has stirred anxieties in Mafia breasts that even Sinatra's mellowest tones could hardly soothe...
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