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Teaching Thucydides. The son of a social worker (his mother was one of the first women in England to earn a university degree), Toynbee studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, and he was teaching Thucydides there when the first World War broke out. Unfit for the military because of a bout of dysentery, Toynbee spent the war working in the Foreign Office, then roamed the Middle East, and eventually taught at the University of London. He thought he would write his study of history in one long summer vacation. He published the first three volumes in 1934, reached...
...significantly, the Federal Civil Service Commission in July reversed its ruling that gays are unfit for public service. About 90% of the nation's 2.6 million federal civilian employees are covered by the new policy, though some agencies such as the FBI, CIA and Federal Reserve Board are not. Security clearances, either by Government or industry, are still not given to gays because of fear of blackmail...
...been so often investigated and exposed as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. As far back as the 1950s, it was dissected by the Senate McClellan committee-which later branded it a "hoodlum empire"-and thrown out of the AFL-CIO as a pariah unfit to live in the house of labor. Since then, it has been the target of endless grand-jury investigations and many exposes of Teamster-Mafia deals, and some of its officers have been jailed; James R. Hoffa ran the union from a cell in Lewisburg federal penitentiary between...
What Finley did to Mike Andrews is something the A's will not soon forget. After Andrews made two costly errors in the second game of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets, Finley announced that the team physician had found the second baseman unfit to play because of a sore arm. Bent on making room for another player to strengthen his roster, Finley dropped Andrews from the team. In protest, the A's wore his No. 17 on their sleeves at a workout before the third game. To a man, they insist that Finley ordered the doctor...
...Departments of Agriculture and Justice are investigating violations of this sort in most major U.S. ports. During the past year, grand juries in Texas and Louisiana have handed down 18 indictments, most of them against inspectors; five have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for certifying unfit ships or deliberately misgrading grain...