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Whatever the evening occasion, Beck is usually ready by midnight to pull on his short nightgown ("Although," he says, "at $50,000 a year-just in salary-I ought to be able to buy silk pajamas without anybody thinking as goddam thing about it") to hop into bed for half an hour's reading, e.g., Harper's Bazaar, before his frenetic day ends...
Closing the first phase of hearings with Dave Beck last week, Kennedy was surprised not at all to see Beck duck behind the Fifth Amendment. From. Counsel Kennedy came a typical reaction: "With the records we have, we'll prove what he would have said if he had talked...
...DAVE BECK sought a foxhole and dug his grave. To invoke the Fifth Amendment does not warrant an automatic presumption of law violation. But the purpose of the amendment is to save a man's neck, not his reputation. Mr. Beck's action could not save him from the disgrace of running to cover behind a personal shield when the management of his union is under grave attack. The truth is that Mr. Beck is in a predicament in which silence may be even more damaging than candor would have been...
...DAVE BECK has as much right as another American to invoke the Fifth Amendment. His action in doing so is no proof of guilt. The trouble with Beck's protestations of innocence is that he has already admitted a moral offense so vast that anything else is anticlimax; long before he took the stand in Washington, he had confessed that he borrowed more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck...
...only outcry we have heard this time about the dastardly action of the committee has come from Dave Beck. Mr. Beck has the right to avoid incriminating himself by his own testimony just as do those asked about subversive activities. We would oppose, as we have opposed in the past, any effort to weaken that right. But Mr. Beck does not have a good reputation guaranteed by the Constitution. That is something a man has to guard for himself...