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...Teamsters-and took out a two-year lease on a suite in a downtown building. But Luken was confident that his dissidents would remain in dissent. Said he: "Jimmy Hoffa is not ten feet tall. I think he's about five foot three.* Hoffa can send in his pros from here till doomsday and he won't get anywhere...
Hoffa's pros may soon have a bit more work than they can handle. Last week, Jimmy's Teamster empire had revolts brewing in a number of provinces: >In St. Louis, drivers at one of the city's largest cab companies have voted 100 to 97 to leave Teamster Local 405 and join an independent union. The NLRB has not certified the result because of a challenge to six ballots, but rebel leaders are confident that the vote will stand. > In Chicago, where cab drivers and mechanics recently voted out a Hoffa pal, Hoodlum Joey Glimco...
...pondered the pros and cons of a baseball career. Joyce sought counsel from businessmen, clergymen, lawyers, and such former bonus babies as Boston's Bill Monbouquette ($4,000) and Carl Yastrzemski ($100,000). Dick's father, a onetime minor league pitcher, was alarmed by carefully planted reports that the big leagues might soon outlaw bonus payments, and urged Dick to accept the Red Sox offer. Dick refused. "If I had accepted the $100,000," he explained last week, "I would have been able to keep only about $69,000 after taxes. Scholastic and business experts estimate that today...
Author Zimmerman, who teaches sociology at Japan's Nanzan University in Nagoya, points out that the problem is not entirely new; the pros and cons of letting a population explode were considered by the ancients with varied verdicts. Confucius was for it. When asked about the problem of poverty among a teeming people, he replied simply: "Enrich them." Plato was one of the most fanatical birth-controllers of all time. Citizens of his ideal state would have to get licenses to reproduce-the women between the ages of 20 and 40, the men between 25 and 55. Aristotle...
...Ethics of It All. What do the guardians of the Christian ethic have to say about the pros and cons of gunning one's neighbor as well as loving him? As more and more families made preparations last week to go underground-with or without submachine guns-various clergymen had various recommendations...