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...Jimmy Hoffa, somewhere. And Jimmy Durante, as the world knows. But could a U.S. President actually call himself Jimmy and get away with it? As it turned out, the answer was no. By calling himself an adoring diminutive, Mr. Carter preempted any possible public urge to do the same. In our own good time we might have come to call him Jimmy, just as we called others before him Ike, Jack and Jerry. But since Mr. Carter took Jimmy for himself, he left no room for any spontaneous objective expression of affection. What followed was disaffection. Two years into...
...Jimmy Hoffa Finally Comes Home. Here Mrs. Hoffa accepts Jimmy's skull from Detroit Teamster leaders as Chuckie O'Brien [Hoffa's natural son] makes sure all of Daddy made it back safely...
DIED. Josephine Hoffa, 62, wife of James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters union boss who has been missing and presumed murdered since July 30, 1975; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Said Mrs. Hoffa in a poignant 1976 interview with the Detroit News: "I've got to find out what happened to my man. Other women lose their husbands. They at least have comfort in knowing where they died and are buried...
...finally make a decision with vision and conviction. He may be searching for a mid dle way, the pathway of the healer. But it may be time now to move beyond that phase and take a road that will collide headlong with noisy minority interests. The late, infamous Jimmy Hoffa, prodded once about truth's being "somewhere in between," answered contemptuously and correctly, "The truth is where it's at." Leadership, too, is where it's at, and not necessarily in the middle...
...when the idealistic halo surrounding unions has deteriorated into a fearful contempt for leaders like Jimmy Hoffa and the New Orleans police chief "who'll wreck the city if our demands aren't met," Ritt has made a movie about places disenchantment hasn't reached...because unions aren't allowed. Norma Rae sharply reminds us that yes, there places where people work for substandard wages and who are forbidden to unionize. The scenes in the textile mill lack the blatant horror of coal mining but instead, they capture the numbing, back-breaking monotony which is just as lethal...