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Where's JIMMY HOFFA? The FBI search of a Michigan farm may help solve that mystery. Even before the Teamster boss vanished in 1975, his doings were cloaked in secrecy, despite Congress's inquiries...
...labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record, sprawling over 44,000 pages of testimony ... But for all its awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records of Hoffa's own Local 299 for the years prior to 1953, had been destroyed or hidden. Most of the important Teamster officials who testified ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Hoffa himself never took the Fifth, but he displayed what one Senator called "the best forgettery...
SLEEP Failing to get a good night's sleep can be hazardous to your health, even if you are not a teamster or an airline pilot. For one thing, sleep deprivation goes hand in hand with obesity. In a study of just over 1,000 patients, subjects with normal body mass indexes got 1.86 more hours of sleep a week than those who were overweight. Sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) pose even graver risks. Not only does OSA cause raucous snoring, but it can also stop your breathing as often as 60 times an hour, which...
...When Naughton, 47, cracked her nest egg for the initial $19,900 investment, her husband thought she was nuts, she says. She has already made half the money back (and dropped from a size 18 to a 12). "I never pictured myself in this profession," says Naughton, a former Teamster driver on the TransAlaska pipeline. What got her interested, she says, is that Curves customers seemed to be having fun--a word not often associated with lifting weights...
DIED. HOWARD CANNON, 90, World War II pilot turned Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost re-election in 1982 after Teamster members were accused--and later convicted--of offering him a bribe for helping to kill a bill deregulating the trucking industry; in Las Vegas. He insisted he was never approached for a quid pro quo, and he was never indicted...