Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bankroll to more than $35 million. The union's 850 locals include brewery and dairy workers, cannery employees, nutmeat and potato-chip salesmen. "Dave," says another labor leader, "will take anybody he can get his hands on. A Teamster' to him is anybody who sleeps on a bed with movable casters...
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...
Under the Bed. Armed with supreme self-confidence and an initial $350,000 appropriation, Kennedy sent his staff legmen into a dozen cities, headed west himself to tackle Teamster chieftains on their home grounds. One day in the west, he knocked at the door of a labor racketeer, was stopped at the doorstep by a suspicious wife...
Kennedy's investigators were full of such tricks. Once they interviewed an Army corporal who passed on idle chitchat from a girl he met at a dance. She was maid for a woman employed by the Teamsters; under the woman's bed was a stack of their records. Anxious to inspect any Teamster file, Kennedy got the corporal to continue dating the maid (although the soldier complained that she was no bargain), arranged to have a staff member accompany them and the maid's girl friend on a double date. Capping the evening at the Teamster employee...
Elizabethan Barbecue. In the Elysée Palace alone, 263 workmen were getting things ready for Elizabeth and her husband. First it was decided that they should sleep in Napoleon Bonaparte's huge bronze and mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward...