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Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his labor investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert...
Flying home last week from a postelection South American vacation, New York's Rockefeller flew on to Washington for a meeting of President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, stayed for a 55-minute talk with Richard Nixon. At talk's end Rockefeller said he and Nixon had agreed that the G.O.P. should develop as many men of national stature as possible and have them available for the 1960 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles asserted yesterday that the Western powers will act with unity and firmness to defend West Berlin against Communist threats...
...life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created the Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve and caustic charm. She could be gossipy ("The Hayes suffer much from rats in the White House who run over their bed and nibble the President's toes"), or just plain lethal ("Not until I had seen and heard Judge...
Damn Yankees. A hot time in the old town tonight, as a couple of devil's advocates, Ray Walston and Dancer Gwen Verdon, get involved with the Washington Senators...