Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has increased Hoffa's power instead of denting it. The $840,000 a year that the Teamsters used to pay into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. treasury is now available for other uses. And expulsion left Hoffa free to raid the jurisdictions of A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, which he has done gleefully...
Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
...Instead, Birrell last week was still safe -though technically under custody-in Brazil, reveling in the unaccustomed role of a rich-but-heroic David pitted against the ruthless power of a Wall Street-dominated U.S.-Government Goliath. And New York Assistant District Attorney James V. Hallisey, who had gone to Rio to push Birrell back to the U.S., was back in Manhattan empty handed...
...transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans had a woman patient whom he rated too ill for a gland transplant. He gave her instead an injection of cells from the ground-up parathyroids of a newborn lamb. Last week, a sprightly 75, she wrote Dr. Niehans from Bern to say that she "never felt better...
...procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant was brought down by police bullets, crushing...