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...worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted of "heinous crimes...
...nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might save him. Against a background of native political unrest, Chance becomes part of Macgrady's crowd. He goes to dope parties in the native quarter, drinks only a little less than Macgrady, and has the bad luck to fall in love with his patient's beautiful young wife Anna...
...They had come to meet 32-year-old Allen Ginsberg of Paterson, N.J., author of a celebrated, chock-full catalogue called Howl (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked), recognized leader of the pack of oddballs (TIME, June 9) who celebrate booze, dope, sex and despair and who go by the name of Beatniks...
...Page One headline in the New York Times, above a story beginning: "Secretary of State Dulles said today the United States and its allies were trying to find new proposals for solving the problem of Germany." Elsewhere in the same issue the Times, which had printed a front-page-dope story two days before predicting just such a shift in U.S. policy, reported world reaction to the press conference over interpretation, quickly threshed by Timesmen abroad. From London: SECRETARY'S VIEW DISTURBS BRITISH. From Bonn: BONN is SHOCKED BY DULLES' WORDS...
...help. Santa Barbara and Ventura police turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother Duncan had hired them to kill Olga for $6,000. They led the cops to a shallow grave in a Ventura County ditch. There indeed lay the body of Frank Duncan's bride, the victim of beating and strangulation...