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...Honolulu press conference last week, 61-year-old, keg-shaped Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, turned to a sport-shirted little man who was sitting silently by and barked: "Who runs this union, Jimmy?" Grinning ingenuously, James R. Hoffa, ninth vice president of the I.B.T. and most undisciplined of Beck's bad boys (TIME, March 19), jumped to his feet and replied: "You run it, Dave. The board meeting today certainly proved that...
James ("Jimmy") Hoffa, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, will speak to an economics seminar next Wednesday, it was learned last night. Hoffa will address a meeting of Economics 284 on Collective Bargaining in the Over-the-Road Transportation Industry at 4:00 in Littauer Lounge...
...enforcement of the court's decision. In U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Historian Bruce Catton says that "the Civil War . . . infinitely broadened the category of American citizenship and the meaning of the American experiment ... It had committed the nation to a working belief in the brotherhood of man. This probably was a little too much to swallow at one gulp in the 18703 or at any other time." It is surely too big a gulp for one part of the nation to swallow without the help and vigorous cooperation of the rest...
...imbedded in stone of Malory's story), and after a grunt-and-sweat match, Medrodus fails to draw it out and Artos succeeds. Picking up a few tricks from the new company he keeps, Medrodus knifes old Ambrosius in the bath, and pricks his own veins in blood brotherhood with Artos, the new Count of Britain, who dubs him Medrawt...
Expanding Sphere. In 1952, in return for helping Dave Beck supplant the late Dan Tobin as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa was made an I.B.T. vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations...