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...that Beck had been using their dues payments like a business tycoon spurred Dave-must-go movements in half a dozen key Teamster locals before Beck finally took the hint. The ugly evidence that he could stoop even to profiting on the sale of real-estate equities to the widow of Union Official Ray Leheny (TIME, May 20) turned his retirement into a sooner-the-better situation (although Beck, protesting innocence in that, says that he has since sent the widow a check). But credit was due also to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
Comrades at Law. Their feature stories described "the rich airs and sparkling diamond necklace" of Defendant Reynolds' wife", painted bitter contrasting pictures of the Chinese widow, Mrs. Liu Chi-jan-"pale, weakened with sorrow, weeping bitterly until her eyes were swollen with sorrow." The Army's conduct of the case did little to dispel Chinese suspicions: both defense and prosecuting attorneys had been flown in from Okinawa, where they shared the same office. This was not the first time one had taken one side of the case and the other had been his friendly antagonist. During the trial...
During the pretrial investigation, the widow of the slain Chinese had told police that her husband knew Reynolds. But neither the prosecution nor the defense called her as a witness, nor made any attempt in court to explore the relationship, if any. The result was to lend credence to widely repeated rumors all over Taipei that the dead man and Ser geant Reynolds had some kind of connection, perhaps in black-market activities...
Next day the Chinese widow appeared outside the grey-walled U.S. embassy carrying a crudely lettered placard bearing the inscription, in English and Chinese: "The Killer-Reynolds-Is Innocent? Protest Against U.S. Court-Martial's Unfair, Unjust Decision." Newspapeir editorials charged angrily that if Reynolds had killed an American, he would not have got off scot-free...
...Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that the Ike-Monty verdict was "disgusting...