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...International Brotherhood of Teamsters meets next week in Las Vegas, where many of the casinos have been financed in part by loans from the pension funds of the union's 2 million members. The principal duty of the delegates will be to elect interim President Roy L. Williams, 66, to a full five-year term, and some will do so without much enthusiasm. The new head of the Teamsters, which has had trouble with the Justice Department for 25 years, has been indicted three times-in 1962, 1972 and 1974-on federal charges of embezzlement and records falsification...
...knuckles philosophy of union management that ruled supreme during his decade-long tenure as president of the U.S.'s largest trade union. Fitzsimmons' death last week in La Jolla, Calif, of lung cancer at age 73 makes room at the top of the 78-year-old International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the succession is not clear. But there seems little prospect that the union will change very much from what it was under the bluff and blustery Fitzsimmons...
DIED. Frank Fitzsimmons, 73, president of the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters; of cancer; in San Diego. Fitzsimmons, a Detroit truck driver when he joined the Teamsters in 1934, served as business manager and vice president of the chapter headed by Jimmy Hoffa. When Hoffa was jailed on charges of jury tampering, conspiracy and fraud in 1967, Fitzsimmons became caretaker-manager of the union and later president, in 1971 (see BUSINESS...
...write two accounts of his theories one for the public and one for the profession), science has slithered further and further away from the layman. Although popularization is becoming more common, in many ways it is also becoming less accessible. And science has become for many, a secret brotherhood dealing in hidden knowledge. Goodfield's book, whatever its laws, is valuable for dispelling this myth and for bringing science and its workers back to its unknowing sponsors...
...veterans who had fought with Shaw stood at attention. "Many of them were bent and crippled, many with white heads, some with bouquets," wrote Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...