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James Hoffa, 51, has been on trial in federal court six times in the past six years, and the fees on that kind of action mount up. Until recently, his Teamsters Union footed the bills. But last month Jimmy got the boot instead when a group of unmatey Teamsters sued to keep him from using union funds. Though he plans to fight the suit, Hoffa sadly says that he is selling stocks, bonds, "what amounts to all my savings," to pay costs estimated at $1,000,000 so far this year. "I've got to earn the money somehow...
...William John Haley, 62, ninth editor of the Times and a loyal Tory to boot, is determined to show that his paper is harnessed to no party. He is even more determined to restore the Times's reputation as the "Thunderer." In the process, he has succeeded in making the Times the most controversial and talked-about paper in Britain today...
...entity; on the other hand, conservatives have complained that it aggravated inflation by breaking industry's united front against the unions' wage demands last year. But almost all political factions support the company because it is so important to the economy. On the instep of the Italian boot, IRI is now completing a $400 million steel plant for Italsider that will employ 45,000 and help to fulfill a legal requirement that IRI devote 40% of its investments to industrializing Italy's south...
...Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged off charges of "squandermania" until his countrymen last December gave him the boot...
...nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress of Vienna, to find that stormy Twin Brother Evelyn has resolved to get their...