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James Riddle Hoffa, ninth vice president (of eleven) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is a tough, resilient man who can slide on his face in a stable and come out smelling like honeysuckle. Three weeks ago he defied what looked like an open-and-shut case against him to win acquittal on charges that he tried to plant an agent on the staff of the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). Last week he turned up cockily for a San Francisco meeting of the Teamsters' constitution revision committee, there unloaded some...
After trying some newspaper-readership statistics on his slide rule, Pollster George Gallup promises for fall publication "the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the American press." For the most part, Gallup's conclusions from interviews with 7,000 readers will only confirm what most editors know about most readers: people like to read about people. But one undeveloped area of reader interest charted in the study is a little-known land to the majority of newsrooms. News of U.S. business, Pollster Gallup's findings suggest, not only deserves more space and prominence than it gets in most...
This leaves the student pretty much on his own, and if he has three time-consuming courses or a big outside activity, he may let his project slide. Many students have regretted the lack of direction in the program, but Harlon P. Hanson '46, director of Advanced Standing, is not too much distressed. He says, "Intellectual worth can be derived from a slackening of pace. Too many people here are tying their shoelaces while they...
Plot's Roots. The stern lines of disapproval that are the normal set of Pedro Aramburu's face deepened as he watched his country's political and economic slide. In 1950, as a colonel, Aramburu joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing...
Bierweiler became Curator of Botanical Collections in the University Botanical Museum in 1937. His knowledge of the Museum has been used to furnish continuity to its academic and public programs. When Botany was taught at the Museum, he prepared the students' slide material for many of the courses...