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Those contradictions are embodied by the movie's two principal characters, Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken), steel-mill workers from Clairton, Pa., who go off unquestioningly to fight for their country. In the film's first hour, set at home, Cimino presents his buddies sympathetically as average men with traditional values: their lives are defined by work, family, church and a love of sport. What happens subsequently to Michael and Nick in Viet Nam is a paradigm of what happened...
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...record rate, steel is undergoing its own private recession. Last week steel production was scheduled at 66.9% of capacity, the lowest nonstrike rate in 20 months-and the rate is due to drop more. U.S. Steel, biggest U.S. producer, announced that it will close down its plant in Clairton. Pa., and curtail output at its. Edgar Thomson works outside Pittsburgh. Other companies are cutting back production and closing plants, have already laid off an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 steelworkers...
...Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned...
Bituminous production dropped an estimated 1,500,000 tons a day. By week's end, Carnegie-Illinois reported that the mammoth coal pile at its Clairton byproducts plant had shrunk to 200,000 tons, enough for only six days of operation. Shut for want of coke was the hot-strip mill at U.S. Steel's modern Irvin works. One by one, in the nation's industrial center, open hearths were banked...