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Centurion. Just as it is Hoffa's destiny to claw toward power once again, it is Sheridan's fate to oppose him. The author was one of Robert Kennedy's principal aides while Kennedy was chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee that investigated Teamster wrongdoing. When Kennedy became Attorney General, Sheridan enlisted as a senior centurion in the Justice Department legion that finally brought Hoffa to justice. Later, as an investigative reporter, Sheridan managed to stay in touch with the case...
...first-person plural as if he were spoofing the "We" of The Talk of the Town. Only once does he break tone and give a hint of the robust tall-tale telling of his native Texas. He describes his grandfather, who, with good looks and a bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked in rail road cars on a siding outside of Fort Riley, Kans." Barthelme concludes: "Actually, he just plain cut down the trees...
Died. Edward V. Long, 64, drawling, country-suited Democratic Senator from Missouri (1960-68), friend of Teamster Chief Jimmy Hoffa and crusader against Government wiretapping; after a heart attack; in Brookhill, Mo. Long was Missouri's Lieutenant Governor when he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Thomas Hennings. After a few quiet years in Washington, Long emerged as an energetic opponent of Government bugging, a passion he shared with Hoffa, who claimed that he had been framed by the Justice Department. In 1966 Long marshaled support for the Freedom of Information Act, giving private...
...president of Continental Airlines; Eugene Klein, chairman of the board of National General Corporation, and a Humphrey backer; and August Busch, chairman of the board of Anheuser-Busch-forsaking the party that ended prohibition. Almost as predictable by this time is the defection of portions of labor. Converts include Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons; Kenneth Lyons, president of the National Association of Government Employees; and J.M. Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, which gave COPE its single biggest contribution in 1970. The catch from show business includes Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Danny Thomas...
WHEN THE NEW Crusader finished his speech, he received a hearty round of applause from the 500 people in the audirace. The applause, however, was deceptive. The most hearty cheers came from a group of about 20 Teamsters who sat in the middle of the hall directly in front of their fallen leader. When local Teamster leaders in Boston first learned that the New Crusader was scheduled to speak at Harvard they asked the Harvard Law School Forum, which sponsored the speech, for 200 reserved seats in Lowell Lecture Hall. "We want to pack the hall for Jimmy," one Teamster...