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Hello to the Champ. Back in February, before Kennedy had any need for a parachute, Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty, wartime naval intelligence officer, went to him with an astonishing story. Jimmy Hoffa, said Cheasty, had offered him $18,000 to get a job with the Senate labor-rackets committee and serve as Hoffa's spy during the investigation into the gamy dealings of Teamster President Dave Beck. Counsel Kennedy and Arkansas' Committee Chairman John L. McClellan quickly arranged a job for Cheasty, and he agreed to help catch Hoffa in a trap. During the next...
...playing up the fact that Cheasty once worked for a Florida legislative commission dealing with a Negro bus boycott, Williams skillfully managed to make him appear anti-Negro. Heightening the picture, ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, a Detroit acquaintance of Fight Fan Hoffa, turned up as a visitor to the courtroom. Every now and then Joe helpfully left his spectator's seat to chat with Hoffa at the defense table. The Justice Department countered by bringing in a Negro attor ney to sit at the prosecution table, but he was no match...
...York Track and Field Meet. The entries included three of the world's best middle-distance runners: Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Jungwirth, who had just set a world record for the 1,500 meters (3:38.1); Ireland's Ron Delany, the 1,500-meter Olympic champ; and, of course. Ibbotson. the 25-year-old electrical engineer from Yorkshire, who twice had broken four minutes...
...When Pro Tennis Champ Pancho Gonzales, 29, heard that he and Lew Hoad, 22, Australia's recent convert to play-for-pay, were scheduled for last week's Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club, he intimated that Wimbledon Champ Hoad was not yet ready for big-time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu...
...Thundering into the homestretch, Jockey Conn McCreary last week urged three-year-old Clem to the head of the seven-horse pack, galloped across the line if lengths ahead of Kentucky Derby Champ Iron Liege to win the $151,500 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park outside Chicago...