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...investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert from ambush and wrecking his home with hand...
Owens: Did you set it (a Southwestern Motor truck) afire? Or Suttle...
Rounding out two days of testimony, Chairman McClellan zeroed in on a reported plan by Teamster Shafer to jump a Southwestern driver, etch the word rat in acid on his forehead. Scowled angry John McClellan: "Don't you agree with me that anyone who would give such orders as that is a rat himself?" Slick-looking Teamster Shafer blushed, swallowed, declined to answer on ground that the answer might incriminate...
...edge. La Concha is aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...history that it is superior in all ways to the lower; and the intellectual proletariat is encouraged to accept a "just inferiority" and develop a liking for sports. Modern wonders abound in Young's Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly aware that their class has been milked of all intelligence capable of leadership...