Died. Joseph C. Wilson, 61, board chairman of Xerox (see BUSINESS).
Died. Joe Adonis, 69, the onetime East Coast gambling czar, described by the late crime-fighting Senator Estes Kefauver as "the most sinister of all U.S. underground figures"; of heart disease; in Ancona, Italy. Born Giuseppe Doto, "Joe A." became a Brooklyn rumrunner and a kingpin of "Murder Inc.," later bankrolled casinos from Maine to Miami, dabbled in legitimate business. A suave figure partial to conservative suits, Adonis once derided less successful gangsters as "crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger—why, he had about a quarter...
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