Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a transatlantic plane at London Airport last week strode Teamster Boss Dave Beck, ready for the question uppermost on the minds of newsmen: Had he left the U.S. to dodge the investigation by a special Senate committee into labor racketeering? Snapped beefy, truculent Beck, whose 1,400,000-member union will be the center of the probe: "Why should I dodge? I have nothing to hide...
...Beck himself, John McClellan, who also heads up the Senate's newly created special rackets committee, put the alternatives in two crisp sentences: "If he is leaving the country for good, well, that's it. But I assume he will be back, and when we are ready to hear him, we will subpoena...
What They Were Up To. Other Negroes had suffered worse indignities, but hers was the one that the South would long remember. The Montgomery City Lines Inc. had long been a special irritant to the Negroes, who made up 70% of its patronage. At best, they had to pay their fares in front, get off and board again in the rear; sometimes after they had dropped their money in the fare box and were going around to the rear, the bus drivers drove off. At worst, the Negroes were cursed, slapped and kicked by the white drivers. By the time...
...series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church, who has stood stoutly for integration. ("If I had a nickel for every time I've been called a nigger-loving s.o.b.," says Graetz, "I'd be independently wealthy.") Negro churches were...
...Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could not express their feelings at public meetings on the Sabbath, rabbis intoned special prayers in Israel's synagogues for the safety of their country...