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Meanwhile the Black Lung Association is getting ready for another g?-round, and the outcome is uncertain. The job of making coal mining ??? and healthier has really just begun-even with the help of new federal legislation passed at the-??? of 1969 and the BLA, which ??? things moving in the first place, faces a bigger ??? than ever. Black lung may be at the core of the problem: but the problem is also a state that will not move into the 20th century without radical prodding: a union ??? ??? to its wallet to be counted on for help: a country no longer...
...form the Physicians' Committee for Miners' Health and Safety, and began crisscrossing the coal states drumming up support for reform. The Black Lung Association set its sights on the West Virginia legislature, demanding that black lung be made a compensable disease and that outmoded diagnostic restrictions be discarded. The BLA saw its legislation as a first step in a crusade to force coal companies to treat their employees as human b?ings and to make their mines safe places to work. But the industry, hypocritically accusing the miners of "emotionalism" and "unfair pressure tactics." succeeded in bottling up the legislation...
...result of the fresher racial climate that Governor Paul Johnson has managed to create in Mississippi. Though no more of an integrationist than his predecessor, demagogic Ross Barnett, Johnson knows well that racial savagery can only scare off badly needed Northern industries. Moreover, unlike most segregationists he realizes that bla tant oppression merely helps the civil rights cause. As the march entered its second week, Johnson passed the word: keep cool...
...accompanists through the basic jazz vocabulary like a teacher running a spelling bee; posing questions in rhythm and harmony, she would close her eyes to listen for the answers on bass and drums. Often she seemed concerned with cliches. But somehow, when her fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead of jazz. Now, "playing in the tradition...
...even F.D.R.'s New Deal (WPA, PWA, NRA, etc., etc.) managed to cook up such a rich alphabet soup. Government agencies, politicians, labor unions, all 22 states and 13 political parties are known by their initials. BAA, BLA, BAP, BAM and BUM are prominent banks. MIC is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, while MEC is the Ministry of Education and Culture, and MAC is a political action group called the Movimento Anticomunista. For slum clearance there is nothing quite so efficient as MUD (Democratic Urbanization Movement). And tax evaders must constantly watch out for the dread SFPRICFN, which...