Word: topped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section designed to ensure honest union elections does not go into effect until Dec. 13. This 90-day delay was intended to give unions time to make their constitutions and practices more democratic. But it served quite a different purpose for Anthony Provenzano, heavy-handed agent of Top Teamster James Riddle Hoffa and indicted (bribe taking) boss of northern New Jersey's big (12,000 members) Teamster Local 560. In the local's October meeting Provenzano and his toughs squelched a band of insurgent members, railroaded through a scheme to hold elections in Jersey City a week earlier...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan now feels the need to draw closer to Europe. When he first came to power after Suez, he gave top priority to repairing Britain's strained U.S. relations. Since his election victory in October, he has shifted his concern to Europe. That was the meaning of Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Paris last week, which produced more assurances than achievement. Next on the agenda: a long-postponed state visit to London this week by Konrad Adenauer...
Immediately upon his appointment as chief of staff, Song launched an investigation of the army from top to bottom. First results: the arrest of scores of crooked officers, from generals to lieutenants. Many were found to be taking bribes from contract-hungry businessmen -and in several cases even succeeded in buying off some of Tiger's investigators, who in turn were also court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June...
...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...gallons of tap water had done its work, Flanagan's heart picked up with a firm beat, quickly cleared his head. Having had no anesthesia, he promptly tried to climb off the table, had to be restrained until his chest could be sewn up. A World War II top kick, Flanagan was soon sitting up, eating three squares a day, expected to go home next week...