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Prime target of Carey's attack was the leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s biggest and most rambunctious affiliate- Dave Beck's scandal-tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took...
...Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian Ira Murchison improved on a disputed victory over Duke's Dave Sime in the 50-yd. dash at Philadelphia by whipping Sime at 70, 80 and 100 yards in Washington in times...
Manhattan's Radio City buzzed last week with news of a major defection: J. Fred Muggs, 4½, the world's most successful chimpanzee, would quit NBC's Today on March 1 after spending all but ten months of his life as Dave Garroway's ape-in-the-hole. First reports said that Muggs was retiring because of laggard health and old age. "Nonsense," said an NBC spokesman. "He's leaving Garroway for the same reason Nanette Fabray left Sid Caesar. He thinks he can make more money...
...first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus came out with a scorching editorial -first to appear in any Seattle paper- condemning the Teamsters Union in Dave Beck's home town for its "affront to the public" in refusing to answer Senate investigators' questions...
...rest of the ladder includes veteran John Mortimer, promising Enos Richardson, Stanley Youssekovitch, Dave Olyphant, Jack Lapsley, and John Davis, who may get a late start because of an arthritic seizure...