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...when news-vending is corporation business and journalists must learn to play the sycophant, Stone's bald outrage at the frauds of governments and men seems pretty strong stuff. (I remember the raised eyebrows last year as Izzy declined to equivocate on questions from a Kirkland forum: "Jimmy Hoffa? He's a lousy crook. Belongs in jail. . . . Dean Rusk? The kind of guy you grow at Harvard--a sophisticated, educated, cultivated big bag of nothing.") A subscriber's salvation is that the unfair, bull-headed way Stone maligns his heroes is more than compensated for by the way he rears...
What burned Bobby was a charge that as Attorney General he had tried to plant in LIFE magazine a derogatory story about Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa at a time when Hoffa was under federal indictment for mail fraud...
...that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received a call from Attorney General Kennedy, who offered to put him in touch with one Sam Baron, a disgruntled Teamster official who wanted to write an exposé about Hoffa...
...make sure his story was told. He asked me to put him in touch with somebody who would relate what he had undergone as a Teamster official. I made that arrangement. I did nothing else. Nothing, in fact, was ever published until Mr. Baron was physically beaten by Mr. Hoffa." LIFE Editor Edward...
...TEAMSTERS: Jimmy Hoffa, 52, is relatively young but much indicted, and if all his appeals fail, he may have to step aside for Einar Mohn, 59, the union's West Coast vice president...