Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crack in the Dam." No sooner was the date set than Hoffa flew to Chicago to help Pal Joey. At a mass meeting of drivers, he blasted Abata, warned that "he wants to take away your bargaining power." He also pulled a typical Hoffa trick. Just as onetime Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had been brought into court four years ago to impress eight Negro jurors when Hoffa was on trial for bribery, the Teamsters' boss enlisted Track Star Jesse Owens to impress Local 777's large Negro membership. Said Owens: "The situation of some Negro cab drivers...
...President Kennedy and for his old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. On another evening, he traded war stories with Secretary of State Dean Rusk-an old Burma hand-and was chided by protocol officers for forgetting to toast the health of the U.S. President. Having survived all the festivities, Ayub flew off for a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and a visit to Ike's Gettysburg, Pa. farm. Still ahead of him were more gastronomical trials: a U.N. dinner and a barbecue at the Texas ranch of Vice President Johnson...
...situation was different from that put forward by Mr. Sandys." A frustrated Sandys returned to his Ottawa hotel, announced that he would sit tight until his prescheduled departure day, in the hope that the Canadians would reopen the talks. At week's end, weary of waiting, Sandys flew off to Quebec to go fishing...
...Hoffa flew in with his wife* and three goals: to clear his clouded claim to the Teamster presidency, which he has held "provisionally" under a 1958 federal court order; to centralize union authority firmly in his own muscular hands; to broaden the brotherhood's charter and set the Teamsters free to organize anyone from airline stewardesses to zoo keepers. By week's end, Hoffa accomplished all three...
...Knees. Soprano Tynes, 29, flew to New York last spring from Milan, where she was studying voice, to audition for Schippers. After listening to her and looking at her small, shapely figure ("Rarely." wrote an Italian critic, "have we seen a physique so perfectly adapted to the role"), Schippers announced: "This is Salome." The daughter of a clergyman, Tynes studied at Juilliard, sang with the New York City Opera and on television before settling in Italy. For a while, the idea of playing Salome disturbed her. Even after the opening night performance, she knelt down in her dressing room...