Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to his police record. Yet Joey Glimco, longtime extortion racketeer in Chicago's West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president...
...Tough & the Bible. In the past two years Nkrumah's jailings and deportations of members of the opposition have made the biggest headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
Waiting for October. The tough Laotian army paratroops around Samneua are in good spirits, despite low pay and meager supplies; in recent weeks they have brought in 50 prisoners and killed 200 rebels in difficult jungle warfare. In general, however, Laos' 25,000-man army is poorly trained and must fight piecemeal over large parts of the country. New Communist attacks in four other Laotian provinces last week were obviously designed to spread the defenses even thinner. Some Laotian leaders concede that
...this point, just when he should have relaxed, the sick (cardiac disease), suspicious President picked a new fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...
Thomas Mellon Evans had a reputation as a tough boss-but hardly anyone realized quite how tough. When he took over Chicago's 104-year-old Crane Co., the nation's largest maker of valves, pipes and pipe fittings, last spring (TIME, May 11), employees braced for a shakeup. They were hardly prepared for what followed. Last week Crane announced the resignation of Norman F. Garrett, the fourth of its six vice presidents to go in three months. Five directors have resigned since Evans took over as board chairman, paring the board down to six men. Burly, rough...