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Beset by an incorruptible, court-appointed board of monitors and by U.S. Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigators, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa last summer bought a bright stunt thought up by his lawyers*: Why not set up an investigating commission of his own? Promptly named as chairman of the Teamsters' three-member Anti-Racketeering Commission: Ohio Insuranceman George H. Bender, sometime Republican Congressman (1939-48; 1951-54) and U.S. Senator (1955-57), memorable to televiewers as the boar-shaped man at the 1952 Republican Convention who made himself conspicuous by ringing a cowbell at every mention...
...high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
...military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane and pull off some stunt such as circling the globe nonstop. Reason: While the U.S. is spending about $100 million a year in a slow development of the twelve-year-old nuclear plane program, planners have made a command decision that a nuclear plane in the present state of the art, has so many military...
...several years the University has threatened action, and following last year's Santa Claus stunt and arrest, President James D. Stanley '59 wrote the Deans that henceforth a Lampoon board would guarantee that all amusements would be harmless and responsible. His successors, however, were until recently ignorant of his letter...
...lighting industry the newest fad is the old gas lamp. The fad got going last year when Whitt Stephens, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president and board chairman, offered to install gas lamps free for the entire city of Little Rock, Ark. as a stunt to publicize gas. The city could not legally accept, but Stephens had six gaslights put up near city hall. So many householders liked their soft glow that Stephens decided to mass-produce the lamps through the company's subsidiary, Arkla Air Conditioning Corp...