Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his labor investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert...
Behind Gilbert came Texas Ranger Zeno Smith, in cowboy boots, shirt, hat-and with bugged recordings to back up Gilbert's story. The Rangers had listened in while one Buck Owens, ex-Teamster bullyboy turned Ranger informer, tossed leading questions at San Antonio Teamster Business Manager Raymond Shafer in motel room conversations. Sample exchange, splashed with BEEPs to blot out the profanity...
...please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...sent up in space vehicles with no hope of safe return. But in the Western world, at least, a human sent into space must have a reasonable chance to get back in fair condition. At the Air Force's invitation, scientists gathered last week in San Antonio for the second international symposium on space problems, and took a hard look at that "reasonable chance...
...help them decide what type of man should be chosen to venture into space and how he should be trained, U.S. Air Force researchers turned to people who have been living for centuries at a way station toward space: the Indians of the High Andes. In San Antonio last week, Physiologist Robert T. Clark reported to the Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere and Space (see SCIENCE) that a valuable lesson has been learned from the Indians at Morococha (pop. 8,500), a mining town in Peru's central Andean highlands...