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Notwithstanding the dangers inherent in the concentration of such power in any single individual, Hoffa's past activities make him a poor candidate indeed to bear the responsibility. The Federal government has not stopped him. If he is not to take upon his shoulders the mantle of Protector of the Economy, united labor and intelligent management must act first. The AFL-CIO has so far shown little concern for the Hoffa threat. Though it has refused to readmit the Teamsters, the general enthusiasm for "ethical practices" so outspoken three years ago has largely waned...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...
...weighing some 2,800 carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...
...this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark suffers the agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human whose claim is based subtly on weakness. Author Matthiessen has successfully brought off something more than...