Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach, Bartok and "Bird" (Cool Saxophonist Charlie Parker). Bongo drums pounded out broken rhythms from early afternoon to early morning. Folk singers plunked guitars. Far-out paintings dripped from the walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood...
...West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local 777 (taxi drivers) and boss of the Teamster joint council of Chicago. He has made crime pay exceedingly well. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated his rake-in from all sources-union salaries, business profits, kickbacks, extortion payoffs-at $70,000 a month...
...lieutenant generals: Vernon E. Megee, 59, commanding the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific; Edwin A. Pollock, 60, commanding the FMF in the Atlantic, and Merrill B. Twining, 56, commandant of the Marine Corps School at Quantico (and younger brother of Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Upon retirement under the Tombstone Law, all three will achieve four-star rank (but not necessarily an increase in retirement...
...arrests on their police dockets. One of them told a Brooklyn machine-shop owner: "You have got to pay us off because you are mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council in New York, Dio helped him set up seven fake "paper locals" to cast votes in a joint-council election. When Dio went to prison on an extortion rap in 1958, Hoffa gratefully promised to look after Dio's family...
...Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with Red China's challenge on his northern borders -apparently no longer considers so outlandish as he once...