Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa was back at the old standthe witness stand in the Senate caucus room in Washington, confronted by a few of his sorely tried inquisitors: Arkansas' weary, sardonic Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Senate labor rackets investigating committee ; New York's finger-waggling Senator Irving Ives; and Hoffa's most implacable enemy, Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, 32, who would give his celebrated forelock to see Hoffa jammed in the jug.
Ducking, snapping and sneering, Hoffa came no closer to the jug. But his performance, laced with an exquisite contempt for...
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