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...James Riddle Hoffa sees it, the most serious threat to his job security lies in the three-man board of monitors fastened on him by a U.S. district court in 1958 to oversee his promised cleanup of the racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Consequently, Hoffa has kept his loo-member legal staff busy harassing the monitors in court, and helping him find other ways around them outside the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Order from the Court | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...occupies a small office amid a clutter of gingerbready desks, cheaply painted walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Man on a Lark | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Win | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...made the most of the Ministry of the Sahara. Last week, in the oasis town of Ouargla, he briskly inspected a 2O-acre terminal servicing the 25-ton trucks that haul pipe to the huge (500 million tons) oil strike at Hassi Messaoud. He checked over plans for a loo-room, air-conditioned hotel, invested the new mayor with a tricolor sash. As he went through these ceremonies, he was not only the minister in charge of two new French dèpartements (states) that together are three times the size of Texas. He was also the man most responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Traveling Salesman | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...U.P.I.'s grief was nothing compared to the tabloid New York Mirror's gaffe. Relying on the advance briefing, the Mirror assumed that the raid had run according to form, made it the banner story (lOO POLICE RAID B'KLYN VICE DENS), and hit the street next morning playing the farce for fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How to Cover a Raid | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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