Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paying a man his price-and Hoffa was sure that every man has one-finally led to his downfall. He was given his eight-year sentence in 1964 for tampering with a jury hearing charges that Hoffa had accepted more than $1,000,000 in illegal payments from a Detroit trucking firm-a Taft-Hartley violation that carried a maximum one-year sentence. Later in the same year, a federal jury convicted Hoffa of fraudulently diverting at least $1,000,000 in union funds and gave him the five-year sentence that is still under appeal...
While he is in prison, Hoffa's $100,000 salary will be reduced to a $48,000 living allowance for his wife, and the union will be headed by his Detroit crony, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, under the title of general vice president. Chubby and smiling, Fitzsimmons will have his hands full trying to keep the Teamsters' regional rivalry from re-emerging. "He's just a peanut-butter sandwich," said one union official. "He'll melt in no time...
Last year vaccination drives in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Detroit and South Dakota paid off handsomely. New Hampshire has not had a single case since September. Elsewhere there have been scattered cases but no epidemics. In all, more than 18 million doses of vaccine have been injected, most of them with the needle, by physicians in private practice. In mass campaigns, where 50 or more children can be vaccinated at once, it is more economical, as well as better psychology, to use an air gun that gives a shot so fast that it's all over before most...
That was how the news looked to Barney Stutesman one recent morning as he hovered over Detroit in a helicopter outfitted with white carpeting and white Naugahyde upholstering. A onetime U.S. Army pilot who is now a traffic watcher for radio station WXYZ, Stutesman is one of a growing tribe of hardy newsmen (and women) who hop into a Cessna or helicopter in the early-dawn hours, brave snow, fog and smog to report the traffic below and watch for fastbreaking news stories like fires and explosions...
...Oldsmobiles, of a type sometimes known in the auto industry as "Dagmars" (for the well-rounded TV comedienne of the 1950s), but the more streamlined and recent Arabesque is based on four sleek pieces from a 1965 Ford compact. Says Seley: "I'm going right along with Detroit...