Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They planned one day to meet on a palm-shaded lanai in sight of the swimming pool and then, to avoid nosy newsmen, switched with their retinue (five lawyers), like French-farce husbands, from the Atwater Kent Suite to the Mary Martin Suite to the parquet-floored Terrace Room. They looked and acted like directors of General Motors come to dream about new models, but they were the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters trying to work their way out of trouble...
...live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live on fat inheritances. A few are reportedly involved in genuine cloak-and-dagger plotting under the command of Yuri N. Paparov, who is cultural attaché of the suspiciously oversized (200 staff members) Soviet embassy...
Last week Boris Morros was also on the move. He was back in his beloved show business as a man no longer suspect. Friends who once crossed Hollywood-and-Vine to avoid the man they despised as a flagrant fellow traveler were proud to talk to him again. Boris, who estimates he lost $2,000,000 in possible earnings by becoming a counterspy, was busy with plans for the future. He had already charmed 18 Nobel Prizewinners into recounting their life stories to him, hoped to turn the stories into a series of television films...
Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into...
...passed and the nation is in a phase of healthy economic readjustment." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. disagreed. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he insisted that inflation is the most critical economic problem facing the country, and that a rolling business adjustment is needed to avoid serious deflation. Said the A.F.L.-C.I.O., mirroring the views of some key Democrats: the Administration's tight-money policy, as enforced by the Fed, is "designed to hasten a recession...