Word: strongmen
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...Time, Joe." Jimmy announced the plan after meeting with two strongmen in the transport business: Joe Curran, 52, lantern-jawed, battle-scarred boss of the seamen's National Maritime Union (membership: 40,000), and Captain (tugboat) William Bradley, 55, paunchy president of the evil-smelling International Longshoremen's Association (membership: 52,000), which was thrown out of the A.F.L. five years ago. The three men kicked off the master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry...
Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Almost as soon as they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began...
Strictly speaking, weight lifting is not a team sport. Each lifter must compete in three different styles of lifting,* with nothing but his own explosive energy to help him get the hefty bar bells aloft. But somehow, after their sad start, the U.S. strongmen developed a muscular team morale...
...maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit the U.S. with favoring hated strongmen; Venezuela is currently irked because Washington gave a U.S. visa to ex-Dictator Marcos Peérez Jime...