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...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...
VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON is caught between the furiously feuding forces of Bill Knowland and Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, the G.O.P. Senate candidate. Unless Nixon can patch things up, a Democratic sweep figures to cost him heavily in prestige and in the benefits of a strong Republican Party in his home state...
Like the weddings performed by Dog-patch's Marryin' Sam-who climaxes his deluxe $2.98 ceremony by thrusting a pair of lighted candles in his ears and jumping off a cliff whistling The Burning of Rome-French funerals come in several grades. It is the undertakers who set these grades, but the church has usually gone along. The cheapest funeral (about $30) is Class 6, which provides no more than a modest hearse, a quick ceremony. Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from...
...Walking through a patch of woods one day in 1948, a Swiss named Georges de Mestral wondered what made burrs stick to his clothes, took some home to find out why. De Mestral not only found out the burrs' secret; he duplicated it with a nylon fastener that seems fair to make major changes in the U.S. garment industry...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...