Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teeth extracted. Asked when he had last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went to work in the mines as his family's chief wage earner. When Martin left home to travel to Catoctin Mountain, his mother told him: "Don't come back, son. There...
...from the Hindi side of his verbally violent party. Last week 106 Congress Party M.P.s from North India petitioned the government-in English-to uphold Hindi as the only official language. Fanatics of the pro-Hindi Jan Sangh Party prowled the streets of Delhi, blotting out English signs with coal...
...million, gas wars and short supplies of Pure-produced crude have cut earnings to a disappointingly steady $30 million. Plenty of wooers have tried the hill but slipped on Pure's fussy terms: Atlantic Refining, Petrofina, Hercules Powder, a syndicate comprised of Loeb, Rhoades, Allied Chemical and Consolidation Coal, and a group that includes DuPont family members. Last week someone finally seemed to be reaching the hilltop. Pure's board voted to carry on merger negotiations with California's Union...
...embassies from Moscow to Montevideo. At Moscow University, a bulletin-board notice cordially invited students of all nationalities to the bash. Some 2,000 accepted, marched ten abreast to the iron gates of the nine-story U.S. embassy, pelted it with ice, bricks, ink bottles, and chunks of coal from a truck that was conveniently stalled a few doors down the street...
Breathing, too, is growing steadily more perilous. Said Johnson: "This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale," by gas, coal and oil fumes as well as by nuclear fission. The 1966 budget under the Clean Air Act will be $24 million-almost double what it was when the law was enacted two years ago. Even so, the President feels that the act needs strengthening to permit the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare "to investigate potential air-pollution problems before pollution happens...