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...Jimmy Hoffa's insistence, a Teamster official like his ex-convict uncle, Herman Kierdorf (impersonating a federal officer, armed robbery), before him. As business agent of the 5,000-member Local 332, Kierdorf used brutal methods and produced satisfactory results. Once he tried to run over a stubborn employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf was successfully negotiating one way or another with every type of company, from sausage makers to rug layers. He might have enemies angry enough to roast...
...sloshed to the judging under plaid umbrellas. And in Quincy, Ill. Librarian Caroline Sexauer reported that the combination of unemployment and rainy weekends has made more people borrow more books than ever. Once they defined the wet summer's cause, meteorologists last week volunteered more bad news. The stubborn planetary winds show no sign of changing their tactics. Early August forecast for the northern U.S. east of the Rockies and for mildewing Midwesterners in particular: more rain...
...course, had the slightest idea "how long it will last." The marines grimly took over the airport, and on the first night all was quiet. Next morning, when the marines planned to move into Beirut proper, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock plunged into conference with handsome, stubborn President Chamoun, and elusive General Fuad Shehab, 56-year-old chief of Lebanon's armed forces. True to form, Shehab, who had steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached...
...Western intelligence report describes him: "His vices are vanity, obstinacy, suspicion, avidity for power. His strengths are complete self-confidence, great resilience, courage and nervous control, willingness to take great risks, great tactical skill and stubborn attachment to initial aims. He gets boyish pleasure out of conspiratorial doings. Has a real streak of self-pity. While a patient, subtle organizer, he can lose his head...
...sprang up along the beach, and gambling tables ran far into the night, presided over by burly, heavy-set men in sharp suits and loud ties. The town's old inhabitants protested, but the local Kellam political machine blandly looked the other way. Six years ago one scrappy, stubborn real-estate man named Joseph Willcox Dunn finally got so mad that he started his own weekly, called it the Princess Anne Free Press, set the slogan, "The Truth Shall Make You Free," in his masthead, and grimly set to work...