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Bitsy has another major gripe. Women truckers, she says, often have to pass a "sleeper test"-having sex with a foreman or male driver-to get a job. "I've had trucking foremen tell me not to frustrate the other driver or they'll get someone else to do the job as required," she says. Archie Marietta, president of Teamsters Local 208 in Los Angeles, says that he has never heard of the sleeper test. "But if Bitsy is a good-looking woman," he says, "I wouldn't be surprised if some drivers didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Women Truckers | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

Diane Olney at the number five slot lost her first set, 4-6, but suddenly woke up and put the sleeper on her opponent...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Racquetwomen Slaughter Tufts | 4/16/1976 | See Source »

Purdy, who broke into the varsity hockey lineup this season, proved the sleeper in the linksters' win over Amherst and Tufts yesterday in the Crimson's opening dual match. The squad finished with a composite score of 386, good enough to whomp the Lord Jeffs by 24 strokes, while Tufts straggled in with...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Lash Lord Jeffs and Jumbos | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...fake, to point out that the blood on Koloff's head came from a plastic pouch concealed in his trunks, or that the two wrestlers probably rehearsed for weeks the choreography of this championship bout. When Bruno delivers the flying drop kick or Koloff applies the Siberian sleeper hold, art and reality begin to merge, even for the Harvard cynics to my left and right...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

Boylston - A real sleeper in more ways than one way. Unfortunately, you feel out of place here unless you're proficient in a foreign language, and I don't mean a better than 560 score on your achievement test. Why just the other day a guy next to me dozed off and five minutes later he was talking Serbo-Croatian in his sleep...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: The Good, The Bad and the Pusey | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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