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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switching to the East Coast, the committee dug into the affairs of I.U.O.E. Local No. 138 on Long Island. The local's President William DeKoning Jr. reached his post by a simple, direct route: he was appointed to it by his late father, longtime boss of Local 138 and a convicted extortionist.* Of the local's roughly 2,000 members, only 500 are allowed to vote in union elections. Witness Peter Batalias testified that when, at a 1955 meeting of the local, he urged voting rights for more members, six goons dragged him outside, pummeled him into insensibility...
...forget the region's colorful, gun-smoking past, anybody may own a pistol without a license (but it is illegal to tote it). All that the most conscientious pawnbroker will demand of a prospective gun-buyer is a "certificate of good character." But the fact is, as Houston Post Reporter John Davis once wrote sardonically: "All you need...
...Four. The U.S. could be grateful that it had so rugged an ally in so vital a location. As the one power that belongs to both NATO and the Baghdad Pact, Turkey is the anchor post in the chain of alliances that the free world has forged to head off Russian aggression. Possession of the Dardanelles gives the Turks the potential ability to close off the Red navy's only means of direct access to the Mediterranean.* If Turkey were not in the way, no substantial military force would stand between Russia and its dreams of domination...
...Venezuelans' triumph was a source of hope throughout the Americas' free countries, a warning jolt to Latin America's last few strongmen (see box). Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that...
DOCILE EDUCATOR to head State University of New York. Post in state government will be vacant Sept. 1. Salary $21,000 yearly, plus use of $97,000 state-owned mansion complete with indoor swimming pool. Also $100 weekly entertainment allowance, and use of Cadillac limousine. Successful applicant must be able to take orders. Apply State Education Building, Albany...