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With his canny knack for beating the rap, Teamster Topdog James Riddle Hoffa has survived 1) an A.F.L-C.I.O. expulsion order, 2) federal investigations of his income tax returns, 3) a pair of Justice Department prosecutions for wiretapping and bribery, and 4) the Landrum-Griffin labor law, which was written largely to unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean...
...public-be-damned arrogance, responsible labor leaders conspicuously shunned his cause, and the 52,000 idled Pennsy workers from other unions chafed to get back to work. Last week Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell abandoned his seven-year stand of strict impartiality in labor disputes to rap Mike Quill: "Reasonable people sitting down at the bargaining table can settle this dispute very quickly," said he. "If Mike wants to be reasonable-and the company, I think, is reasonable in this area-he can settle...
Some papers simply thought that Jack Kennedy was getting a bum religious rap. Wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Senator Kennedy seems to us to have demonstrated admirable independence on this issue, since he has voted at least twice contrary to what we believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion...
Ticketed to start a three-month stretch in jail this week: Boston Textile Magnate Bernard Goldfine, 70, crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Goldfine was convicted of contempt of a federal court after he refused to produce records bearing on an income tax evasion rap...
...defeated as the Republican presidential candidate, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman London signed a bill restoring capital punishment to the Kansas penal code. Therefore, when Kansas' current Governor, George Docking, recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of a brutal murder, he drew a sharp rap from Alf Landon, now 72. Last week, Docking, only half in jest, snapped: "If Landon likes capital punishment so well, we'll just offer him the job of state executioner at $100 a throw. I'll throw in free cigarettes." Replied Landon icily: "That comment sounds about as psychopathic...