Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union also had just raised its dues, and had given Fitzsimmons complete authority to dispense fat Teamster funds for political campaigns (in addition to giving him a $25,000 raise to $125,000 a year-biggest salary of any U.S. union official). Moreover, Fitzsimmons was a loyal Hoffa lieutenant who had been serving as the acting Teamster chief at Hoffa's direction. And suddenly the U.S. Board of Parole scheduled an unusually early rehearing on whether Hoffa should be released from prison. If he is and the Teamsters support Nixon for reelection, many would wonder whether a deal...
...short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says, "but it's good for a short fat man." Then, smiling slyly, he adds, "Say, it's worked for a while, hasn...
Shambling along a fairway, the short fat man often looks more like one of the galleryites?which explains in part why he has become the duffers' delight. "I've got a lot of people rooting for me," says Trevino, "because there's more poor people than rich people. You look at my galleries. You'll see tattoos. Plain dresses. I represent the guy who goes to the driving range, the municipal player, the truck driver, the union man, the guy who grinds it out. To them, I am someone who worked hard, kept at it and made it. Sure...
...Vice President Robert P. Graham "enjoyed talking about my job," but Corporate Planner John W. Heil-shorn "had a very real feeling when I walked in that I was guilty before I took the witness stand." Heilshorn found that the interviewers generally assumed that his institution is "a big, fat New York bank hoarding capital" and held "a clear bias toward centralized Government control" of private business. Says Wriston: "Most of the Nader team saw the experience as an adversary proceeding. Whatever you told them, they acted like you were trying to mislead." The investigators turned down an offer from...
...with portraits in epithet. Zanuck has his "beaver's teeth pronged into a cigar." Skouras is merely an "oxlike package, voice like a child's rattle." Louella Parsons is kissed off as "The Queen Mother at Toad Hall." Marilyn Monroe, "a child with short legs and a fat bottom," wonders innocently: "Who is Thomas Mann...