Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already No. 1 in real power. In 1957 he elbowed discredited Dave Beck aside, got himself elected president with a salary of $50,000 a year, plus $15,000 extra from Local 299, plus a bottomless expense fund. Despite his prosperity, Jimmy Hoffa, with his wife Josephine and their son and daughter, has conspicuously continued to live in the lower-middle-class Detroit house that he bought 20 years ago for $6,800 (it is now worth about...
...Balked in earlier attempts to move into Chicago, Hoffa got a foothold in the late 19403 through an alliance with Paul Dorfman, described by the McClellan committee as "a major figure in the Chicago underworld." Hoffa paid Dorfman off by handing fat Teamster insurance contracts to Dorfman's son. Through Dorfman, the committee charges, Hoffa got on good terms with such top Capone gang chieftains as Joseph Glimco and Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca. Glimco, with a record of 36 arrests, including two on murder charges, became a trustee of a Chicago Teamster local. In 1956, when Ricca...
...talk with President Eisenhower, Rockefeller was warmly greeted, talked more about civil defense, but neither expected nor got any presidential endorsement. Later in the week, he flew off to his son's wedding in Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS), where there are no New Hampshire primary votes, but where the citizens responded enthusiastically to the personal appeal that makes Nelson Rockefeller such a formidable presidential hopeful...
...live" was just about the only legacy a Jewish parent in Hitler's Europe could offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard...
...sharp-minded son of the Baptist preacher, recently kicked out of the state university for general bad character, volunteers for the rescue job. Isaac inches into the cave, but not before he has arranged for delivery of a tape recorder and enough food to satisfy a hillside full of hungry sightseers. His report, when he squirms out. ensures that the gawkers will come: Jasper is pinned down by a boulder. As rescuers start drilling to the roof of the cave, Isaac spiels out a professionally emotional account into his tape recorder and fires it off to a radio station.* Soon...