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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15--Vincent Jimmy Squillante, alleged overlord of a 50-million-dollar a year trash collecting industry, stepped behind the Fifth Amendment today when questioned before a Senate investigating committee. Committeemen said they planned to explore later whether the Mafia is involved in the giant Teamsters Union "generally" and is trying to take over the country...
...always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five-sided doghouse," upset the military convention of equating rank with intelligence by remarking: "I haven't noticed it made a man any smarter to put another star on his shoulder...
...made several slurs on Harvard during school committee meetings last year. In the minds of these men, the outcry against the appointments last year was organized by the Cambridge Civic Association, a good-government seeking organization, as a political maneuver to malign the motives of the "independent" school committeemen...
...motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...
After Beck and Hoffa departed, the Ethical Practices Committeemen huddled to work out the report they will present to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council on Sept 24. That report will say that the biggest and most powerful U.S. labor union is indeed riddled with corruption. The Executive Council will probably approve the report and then, just before the Teamster convention in Miami Beach, warn the union to clean house or face expulsion from the united labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O...