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...prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend has it, he convened a meeting with the words: "All right, you sons of bitches, let's pray." He can also speak with a fervor honed by years as a Methodist lay preacher...
Ships & Reactors. Those statistics mark a long reach from the spring of 1898, when a young teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...
Since the New Yorker took the field and the President renounced a second full term, residual anti-Kennedy passions have quickened. Condemned variously for his antiwar stand, his "opportunism" in entering the race, his hippie hair, his pro-civil rights proclivities, his vendetta against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, his indentureship in the '50s under Joe McCarthy and myriad unspecified acts of vindictiveness, Kennedy seems to many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching...
...Teamster Gross. Since the strikeborn substitutes were unable to employ the total 1,000-man Teamster work force at the increased rates the strikers were demanding, the union simply shut them all down by refusing to make deliveries. Not that some Teamsters fared too badly while they lasted. A state senate investigating committee discovered that seven Teamsters had grossed about $300,000 during the eight weeks they operated a distributing company to circulate the Daily Express. It was also confirmed that other Teamsters had made arrangements to publish the Dispatch before the strike had begun, a situation that Michigan Senator...
...strike came close to settlement last month when the publishers offered the Teamsters a $30-a-week raise over three years. Teamster International Vice President Robert Holmes recommended that the locals accept it. The Teamsters at the Free Press did, but the more militant members at the News turned it down. Now both sets of strikers are as mad at each other as they are at the publishers...