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Work is a many-splendored thing. It can range from garbage collecting to paper shuffling, and even, after a recent ruling in Michigan, to sexual intercourse. Domenico Signorelli, 37, was engaged in the latter one spring night in Birmingham, England, when he was overcome by carbon monoxide from a space heater. He died ten days later; his companion, whom he had met on the job, recovered. Signorelli's widow collected $170,000 in life insurance, and there the matter might have ended had her husband committed his indiscretion back home. But since he had been sent abroad...
...contention in the March pact: refusing to limit the use of nonunion workers at the mines by company subcontractors. Having reached agreement with the operators, Church set out to talk with his workers. Said he: "Like Willie Nelson, I'm going on the road again." First stop: Birmingham...
...seemed the work of a demonic psycho. The killings were awful; the concern is real, but the news interest has been exploited. Every violent death of a black child in Atlanta-the kind that wouldn't rate a paragraph nationwide had it happened that day in Memphis or Birmingham-is piled on to the city's total (25! 26! 27!) by a press prone to declare and then contribute to "a climate of fear." It may be a kind of retribution that the press now finds itself involved in its own mini-"crime wave"-the faking of stories...
...board of directors of the Lyndhurst Foundation. a University of Alabama-connected philanthropic organization that has sponsored many health care programs in the South and is now branching out into education. He "found a connection," and over spring vacation Lazar took a 24-hour bus ride from Chicago to Birmingham to meet this stranger...
...some 540,000 bypasses were performed in the U.S., too many according to some critics, who feel that drug therapy is safer, cheaper (a bypass costs about $15,000) and as effective in many cases. Says Surgeon John Kirklin of the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, who performs an average of six bypasses a week: "Bypass grafting can make a person absolutely well who has been totally disabled. But you don't want to use such a powerful weapon until you have to. You want to keep your powder...