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...after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...
...room audience gasped happily at hearing that Barney Baker, at separate sittings, had devoured 4 Ibs. of spaghetti and 38 Ibs. of meat. There were titters when Baker explained his philosophy for talking to cops: "Little white lies don't mean nothing, not when you are not under oath." Jimmy Hoffa, sitting in the audience, was convulsed by his pal's antics. And even Arkansas' dour John McClellan turned his head to hide a smile when Baker was being questioned about his murderous old pals on New York's waterfront...
...after Eduard Benes unhappily yielded Czechoslovakia to Communist control, the late President's nephew, Bohus Benes, became a U.S. citizen. Czech consul general in San Francisco from 1942 to 1948, Bohus Benes is now a part-time lecturer in political science. Coldly straightforward about the significance of his oath to the U.S., he said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country will ever be liberated...
...tricolored sash of office flashing across his starched shirt, Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, 52, stood stiffly through an enthusiastic 21-gun salute that shattered a Capitol window. He listened gravely to aging (69), ailing Conservative Senate President Laureano Gómez, who struggled to his feet to read the oath of office. Lleras Camargo answered, "I swear," and democracy was back in business...
...first Goldfine, groomed in a dark blue suit and "B.G."-initialed blue silk tie, walked into the packed subcommittee hearing room chin up but eyes downcast, escorted by a retinue of three lawyers, devoted employees and jewelry-hung wife. When Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris administered the oath, Goldfine helplessly mouthed words, cleared a frog from his throat and finally croaked: "I do." Then he launched into the 25-page statement that the lawyers and pressagents had written, right down to grammatical errors, to fit his role of the common but honest...