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...Hoffa," testified Hickey, "interceded for Mr. Dio. [Mr. Dio] impressed Mr. Hoffa no end." At a high-level meeting with Dio, Hickey and Dave Beck, Hoffa tried to win Beck's agreement to sweep Dio into the Teamsters Union with a Dio-controlled taxicab local, but, said Hickey, A.F.L. Boss George Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would...
Lodestoned. In Providence, ten months after he gave himself up at police headquarters, turned in a utility truck he had stolen while on a binge in a Boston suburb, Ed R. Silva took on another skinful, showed up at the station with a taxicab he had liberated in Boston, offered an explanation: "I like the Providence cops...
...situation comedies are less successful. Joe and Mabel (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) recounts the tribulations of a Brooklyn taxicab driver and his girl ("He's the sweetest fella a girl ever went to Florida without"), labors through improbable incidents and even less likely dialogue. The Charlie Farrell Show (Mon. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) takes place at the former screen star's plush Palm Springs Racquet Club; even in that glamorous setting it is corny and witless...
Outside a shabby, nine-story office building on Manhattan's East Twelfth Street one day last week four nattily tailored men climbed out of a taxicab, moved quickly across the sidewalk and into the grimy lobby. There they wedged themselves into the tiny elevator and rode to the eighth floor, headquarters of the Communist Party's biggest propaganda machine, the Daily Worker (circ. 9,000). At exactly 1 p.m. the four men trooped into the Worker's dingy newsrooms, identified themselves to Office Manager Dorothy Robinson as U.S. Treasury tax agents, and presented a lien...
Model T to Diners' Club. That competition has been steadily weakening ever since a Chicago auto salesman named Walter L. Jacobs started his car rental business with twelve model T Fords in 1918. He built the fleet to 565 cars in five years, then sold out to Taxicab Manufacturer John Hertz. Jacobs stayed on in the company, eventually rising to president, and has convinced millions of travelers that it makes sense to rent...