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...official said of the private meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some of the Democrats seem to have the idea that we've got to go along with them...
...stabbed Arthur Collins in the New York subway last October and sprinted away. Even so, a reporter from Manhattan's Spanish-language newspaper El Diario soon picked up the suspect's trail. Following a telephone tip, Esli Gonzalez, 34, went from bar to bar in The Bronx. Finally he found the fugitive, but the man got away again. Next night, Gonzalez tracked the man down for the second time and persuaded him to give himself...
...about New York. It is aimed at New York's non-Puerto Rican Latin Americans-Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians-who are currently streaming into the city, while the Puerto Rican migration has slowed to a bare trickle. El Tiempo also makes a point of hiring celebrities. Enrique Negron, the Bronx grocer who saved a policeman from a howling...
...Bobby Kennedy ran for Senator in 1964, El Diario plastered pictures of him all over the paper and editorialized: "They say that you own a house in Virginia and that you vote in Massachusetts. But we know better than that. You are a real New Yorker, born in The Bronx." Last month, after Kennedy had made his swing around Latin America, El Tiempo's Juan Casanova said in his gossip column, "Off the Record": "When he arrived in Caracas, at the Hotel Tamanaco, Kennedy took his own liquor to the pool, not buying in the local bars. Thus...
Wheat for Hides. If building a skyscraper to camouflage an oil well seems unusual, it is only in keeping with the career of Armand Hammer, 67, a bouncy man with some unusual ideas. The son of a Bronx physician, Hammer himself went to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. While there, he and an older brother purchased for peanuts a large supply of Government-owned pharmaceutical products that had become surplus with the end of World War I. In 1921, at the age of 23, Hammer became an M.D.-and, by selling his pharmaceuticals on a rising market...