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...Teamster president's more peaceful opponents. The situation here is a particularly frustrating one for McClellan and his committee, for they are convinced, along with the rest of the nation, that Hoffa is a corrupt labor leader who should have been locked up long ago. He has gotten off the hook once already and the Committee well realizes they cannot afford to let him get away again. If he did, public opinion would certainly begin to question the value of a labor rackets purge that could not rid the unions of their most obvious offender...
...absence of any reliable news from official sources, these few had only gotten a glimpse of the truth, and that by rather haphazard means. A man and woman from Leningrad told Abrams that rumors concerning the real situation in Hungary had spread through the city after bottles were found along the railroad tracks, containing scribbled messages pleading for help from Hungarian youths being deported to Siberia...
...banquet during which he was supposed to tell Detroit sports fans how his Lions were going to win back the professional football championship, Lion Coach Buddy Parker suddenly switched signals and announced: "I've got a situation here I can't handle any more. These ballplayers have gotten too big for me, or something. I'm getting out of Detroit football." Finally convinced that Buddy was not kidding, the Lion management sent in a last-minute substitute: George Wilson, longtime Lion assistant coach and twelve-year veteran of the Chicago Bears...
...After three years," said the wife of a Radio Corp. of America missileman, "you get used to it." But the wife of a General Electric official contradicts her. "I've never gotten used to it, and I never will. Every time I hear a roar that isn't a jet, I break my neck getting outdoors. My husband never says anything, and if he comes home happy, I want to know...
Trustless of their own experience, the Puritans had gotten best at minding other people's business. At the taverns, which followed the cows to Boston, the constable's duty was to see that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange Tavern, where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...