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...searches and seizures." Robert Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, complains that the guidelines imply federal workers are "potential cheats." Says Tobias, whose union has succeeded at least temporarily, in forcing the U.S. Customs Service to halt its drug- testing program: "This is a comic exercise in Ty-D-bol justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big John | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...that he use a condom. O.J. Elledge, a former National Ballet of Canada dancer who is now a counselor to AIDS victims, has seen a "dramatic change in approach to sexuality" among performers. "There is a lot less playing around. It's not the way it once was." But Ty Granaroli, 27, a heterosexual corps de ballet dancer at American Ballet Theatre observes, "Straights feel very secure. That's a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

First, this solution would satisfy baseball purists, who demand that Roger Maris' home run record and all other records set in the longer season be denoted with an asterisk. (Would they suggest that Pete Rose's hit record be asterisked because he played in seasons of 162 games while Ty Cobb played in 154-game seasons...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Fall Classic or Winter Carnival | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...Black Sox," as they came to be known, were hounded out of organized baseball and into the oblivion that the team owners believed they deserved. Even "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter whom his contemporaries compared with Ty Cobb, is recalled today chiefly for the plea addressed to him by a disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys of 67 Summers Ago Out! | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Well, Gwen and Alma find a taker--the overripe harem head, Celia Lips (Ty Christopher Warren), who's constantly looking for new blood with which to tempt the timid Sultan Battery the Ever-Ready (Jon Tolins), who's got, well, women problems...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

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