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...Honolulu press conference last week, 61-year-old, keg-shaped Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, turned to a sport-shirted little man who was sitting silently by and barked: "Who runs this union, Jimmy?" Grinning ingenuously, James R. Hoffa, ninth vice president of the I.B.T. and most undisciplined of Beck's bad boys (TIME, March 19), jumped to his feet and replied: "You run it, Dave. The board meeting today certainly proved that...
Superficially, Hoffa's answer seemed no more than the truth. That afternoon, at a meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
...When the Honolulu meeting was over, a reporter asked Dave Beck if the decisions taken had been designed to "put the brakes on" Jimmy Hoffa, whose organizing talents have spread his domain into 27 states. "Positively not!" boomed Beck. "Why in hell would we want to put the brakes on anybody who is doing that good a job of organizing? I wish I had 40 more like...
Last week, bending before Meany's wrath, Seattle's Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, directed Hoffa to take no further action on the I.L.A. alliance until it had been discussed by the teamsters' executive board in Honolulu this month...
Among the house committee representatives are David C. Baum, of Winthrop House and Highland Park, Ill.; Clinton K.L. Ching, of Dunster House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Lindsay E. Fischer of Leverett House and Broadmoor, Colo.; and Vincent R. Larson of Minot, S.D. Baum is also a member of the Student Council, the Harvard Band, and Phi Beta Kappa. Ching is on the Casson Club Executive Committee. Fischer, has participated in varsity soocer, skiing, and lacrosse. Larson is a Rhodes Scholar, a varsity debater, and past president of the Crimson Key Society...