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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shady Outlook. On the whole, though, the road ahead stretches straight and smooth for the union. Says Investigative Editor Jim Drinkhall, who has written many reports of Teamster shady dealings for Overdrive, an independent monthly trade publication: "Essentially, their idea is 'Who cares what they do as long as I get mine?' " Many employers do not care either; they regard the Teamsters as a good union to deal with because it keeps the members in line and has held wildcat strikes to a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Attracting Money and the Mafia | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...means of "Far out, Too much..." and hideous witch cackling that had gotten all twisted up somewhere deep down in his throat before flirting out between his rotten teeth. The Delac does give quite a ride and she does purr like a lady and she is real sweet and smooth and Daniel was right: He didn't forget his ride...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...Daniel forget our ride out to Peg's. The sun melted up on Galena Pass; on mountains still white and green from the late winter, not yet brown, sapped, sore, crumbly from the summer's desert sun. And the sun was smooth on the summit: the Sawtooths stretched about as far as the eye could see; blue, brittle, gaping; Pegleg's valley fell below...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...battle lines began forming at Local 299, old friends of both Hoffa and Fitzsimmons tried to smooth things over last year by putting together a coalition. David Johnson, a longtime Hoffa ally, was allowed to continue as president of the 17,500-member local, and the vice presidency went to Richard Fitzsimmons, 45, the Teamster president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...orbiting Apollo after their 44-hour handclasp in the sky, Soyuz earlier in the week came to a near bull's-eye touchdown on a dusty Kazakhstan plain, ending what Soyuz Commander Aleksei Leonov in his colloquial English said was a flight that seemed to go "as smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week's end the two cosmonauts who had been aloft in a Salyut space station all through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Apollo-Soyuz: A Dangerous Finale | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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