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Plus a Waterfall. Last week, when the story of his latest and flashiest fringe benefit broke, Beck bellowed like a bull caught in the barn door. "I had nothing to do with the purchase," he said. "When they wanted to give me a home, I wanted nothing less than what I was living in already. They said, 'Go ahead and buy it. We don't care what it costs...
...Dave Beck, the ruddy-faced president of the A.F.L. Teamster Union, could easily be mistaken for a millionaire. Teamster Beck has several personal business interests on the side: he owns large chunks of Seattle real estate; he is board chairman of Kellerblock Corp., which owns Seattle's 18-story Grosvenor House apartments, and, until recently, he operated Northwest Securities Corp., an auto finance company. His family has interests in other enterprises, including beer and beverage distributorships. Last week it appeared that Beck put over one of his best business deals at the union's expense...
Plus Periodic Rest. From the Teamsters President Beck gets the same salary as doddering President Emeritus Dan Tobin, who retired in 1952: $50,000 a year.* He also gets some plain and fancy fringe benefits, including the right to travel at union expense anywhere in the world with his family and aides for "periodic rests"-a privilege specifically written into the Teamsters' constitution...
Recently, Teamster officials decided that their boss deserved the same sort of generous treatment granted to retired President Tobin, for whom the union provides homes in Miami and New England, along with servants and upkeep. Last March 10, while Beck discreetly absented himself from the room, the union executive board unanimously voted to supply him with a "home and operating help." It turned out that Beck, always a good businessman, did even better than Tobin. He sold his own house to the union for $163,215, pocketed the money and went right on living there, free...
...deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet-master, Saint-Léon. If the Delibes music was as familiar as an old song, the peasanty dancing was like hearing it sung in another language, and audiences loved the piquant combination...