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After his steamrollered re-election as president of the powerful Teamsters Union in Miami last month (TIME, July 14), James Riddle Hoffa seemed about as securely in control of his czardom as any tyrant could be. But last week in Cincinnati, 4,000 members of four Teamster locals voted all but unanimously to disaffiliate from Jimmy Hoffa's empire and sign on with unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Cincinnati revolt against Hoffa was led by an outspoken ex-milkman named James T. Luken, 39, president of the Teamsters' Cincinnati Joint Council, who has long tried to curb Hoffa's power grab from within the union. But after the Miami convention, where Hoffa showed "the most complete dictatorial control that I have ever witnessed or read of in a free society," Luken decided that enough was enough, went home to persuade his workers to vote...
Hoffa fought the threat. As soon as the Cincinnati vote was scheduled, he sent in his strong right arm, Vice President Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, to direct strategy. After the vote, Jimmy named Gibbons as "trustee"; Gibbons announced he would challenge the result in court on the ground that Luken had failed to use a secret ballot. To Gibbons' surprise, Luken petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for another election, hopes to have it scheduled by Labor Day. "That will permit Mr. Gibbons to get back to St. Louis," he cried, "and try to turn the hose...
...Starting from Troy in 1932, Professor . John L. Caskey of the University of Cincinnati has dug his way along the fabled trade routes of the Aegean Sea. Last summer he stopped at the island of Kea, reckoning that its wind-sheltered harbor offered a natural anchorage for ancient mariners. Caskey was right. This summer, on Kea's St. Irene peninsula, he found a Mycenean settlement dating back 3,500 years, complete with temple, palace, private homes with inside plumbing, and a municipal sewer system. Scattered through the town were fragments of delicate Cretan pottery. The settlement was probably destroyed...
Although the free-swinging Yankees were well ahead of all the teams in both leagues in season homer production (with 155), other teams were not quiet. Detroit's Rocky Colavito hit two homers, kept the surprisingly stubborn Tigers close behind the Yankees. In the National League, Cincinnati's Frank Robinson collected four and Milwaukee's Henry Aaron got three. Season totals: American League, 1,000; National League...