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Questioned in the witness chair about mob-union connections, Teitelbaum tried to duck under the Fifth Amendment and the First, Sixth and Sixteenth. Back in River Forest, glued to their TV sets for the Chicago telecast of the hearings, Tony Accardo's neighbors began to catch a glimpse of how he earns his living...
...year-old chorus from three neighboring schools, gave them three months to learn their lines and six weeks to learn the music. What impressed him even more than their musical aptitude was their anxiety to please. Early in the rehearsal period, he spotted a small boy wearing a duck label, asked him if he could quack. "No," said the boy solemnly, "but I'm double-jointed...
...serving as Senate spokesman for the Administration and the Republican Party, California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland has an apparently incurable habit of throwing his burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue of aid to Communist satellites (TIME...
...Ahead. The rocket for the first probe will be aimed about 40° ahead of the moon, like a hunter leading a duck. Its initial speed of 23,827 m.p.h. will bring it to the moon's vicinity in a little more than three days. If aimed correctly, it will cross the moon's orbit slightly ahead of the moon, moving comparatively slowly. In this region the moon's gravitational field is dominant. It will pull the probe around the moon and sling it back toward earth in a lopsided figure eight...
...hand in the development of talent in the agency's training program. Even more important is a fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles D. Peet of Bronxville, wife of a Manhattan lawyer, mother of a son, 22, a daughter, 12. She and her husband duck Manhattan nightlife, spend most of their spare time at home with their family. Does Mrs. Peet find conflict in two careers in the family? "I get disgusted," she says, "with people who try to emphasize 'the battle of the sexes'-always pitting men against women. I think the only...