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Sentenced last week by a federal court in Tacoma, Wash, on six counts of income tax evasion: Dave Beck, 64, longtime Teamsters Union president, nudged-from office by Jimmy Hoffa in 1957, and in trouble with the law ever since. Sentence: five years' imprisonment and $60,000 fine, plus $10,961.52 in court costs. Said U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in a lecture from the bench: "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates, and, in some instances, his personal friends-most of whom quite readily would have given him anything he asked...
Among those elected to the Committee were Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn.; Katherine C. Ashley '59, of Briggs Hall and Seattle, Wash.; Emily W. Churchman '59, of Bertram Hall and Lafayette Hill, Pa., and Juanita K. Cohen '59, of Whitman Hall and New York City...
...group of insurgent freshmen provided the only drama last night in the most peaceful Young Republican Club election of recent years. Christopher T. Bayley '60, of Leverett House and Seattle, Wash., was overwhelmingly elected president as expected by everyone, including his opponent...
Four members-at-large were elected, including two freshman independents, Roger W. Annenberg '62, of Hurlbut Hall and Philadelphia, Pa. and Philip C. Olson '62 of Massachusetts Hall and Plymouth. Also chosen were Tom A. Alberg '62 of Wigglesworth Hall and Seattle, Wash., and Bruce P. Shields '61, of Lowell House and Somerville...
Only a year before, when Syrians welcomed Nasser as the new Saladin and his merger as "a turning point in world events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...