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...paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive. One reason: Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters truck most of America's cars from assembly points...
...first to say that with the difficulty that many of the Administration proposals have run into, that somewhere along the line I have not done as well as might have been done." But, he continued, in a terse summation of his unchanging attitude towards Capitol Hill, "I never employ threats. I never try to hold up clubs of any kind. I just say, 'This is what I believe to be best for the United States,' and I try to convince people by the logic of my position. If that is wrong politically, well then I suppose you will...
...passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
...mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search for machine and man safe enough to ferry him took nearly four years...
...became mayor of Florence six years ago, bustling Giorgio La Pira summoned a city official and announced: "Your only preoccupation will be to employ for the city as many jobless as possible." When the official uneasily remarked that city funds were already overdrawn, La Pira blithely replied: "This town is dedicated to God. He never worried about money and neither shall...