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...example." But in both Canada and the U.S., many questioned the doctors' tactics. In Boston, Dr. Richard Ford, associate clinical professor of legal medicine at Harvard, volunteered to fly to Saskatchewan to investigate any deaths "that may be related to professional negligence by delinquent physicians." Dr. Gerhard . T. Beck, 53, left his yacht in Jacksonville, Fla., and flew to Regina to help, declaring: "It is not our professional prerogative to desert our patients...
Appropriately attired in grey, Dave Beck, 68, looked downcast as he surrendered to U.S. marshals in Seattle for the start of two concurrent five-year federal prison terms for tax fraud. But there was still a touch of the old bravado in the onetime boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As he boarded an 84-ft. launch near Tacoma that took him four miles across Puget Sound to McNeil Island Penitentiary, he called: "Remember MacArthur, boys! I'll be back." When the turnipy teamster does return, he will face 15 more years for embezzlement of his union...
...social sense. Beck's punishment has already been severe. Before the Senate hearings, he took inordinate pride in the fact that he was a member of dozens of boards, a regent of the University of Washington, a member of the state board of prison terms and paroles. After the hearings. Seattle hanged and burned him in effigy, and his stature was irredeemably lost...
...Beck made money, and his financial comeback has been phenomenal. Today, he puffily points out that the estate left by his late wife "is one of the largest now pending" in the local courts. "I make more money since I left the Teamsters than they ever paid me." he says. "I've got six corporations, and I don't take any salary. I put it all back into the corporate structure-and may my mother never draw another breath if this isn't so." Since 1957 he has acquired a $450,000 warehouse, a $900,000 motel...
...bank." he likes to say, "said there could be no better manager than me." Last week Beck's time ran out. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his conviction for tax fraud, and his attorneys conceded that jail was only a few days away. At 68, Beck faces two concurrent five-year federal prison terms and a 15-year sentence in the Washington State Prison. But things could be a lot worse...