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Chunky, hard-boiled Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa has shown remarkable talents in recent months both for getting into trouble and for wriggling out. Jimmy's latest wriggle: in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts lifted his own injunction barring Hoffa from taking office as Teamster president. At the Teamsters' marble-and-glass palace in Washington, Jimmy's secretary promptly started greeting telephone callers with a cheery "President Hoffa's office." But Hoffa was a president on a leash, and the other end was held by Judge Letts...
...Hoffa Victory...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--A compromise court settlement today permitted James R. Hoffa to take the presidency of the Teamsters Union, with a board of "watch-dogs" looking over his shoulder...
...Dist. Court Judge F. Dickinson Letts approved a settlement worked out by attorneys for the Teamsters Union and dissident members who had brought suit to block Hoffa's accession to the presidency...
Eager to top Hoffa, McDonald last week unwrapped a gaudy parcel of his own: three-month vacations for steelworkers every five years, in addition to the regular yearly vacations of from two to three weeks. Striking the statesmanlike stance that union presidents assume when explaining how what is good for their unions is good for the country, McDonald argued that three-month vacations would help ease the "disemployment" caused by increasing automation...