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WHEN I LOOK back on it, I guess I can blame the Army. Somewhere back in the early '70s, they drafted my father, an articulate. Harvard-educated physician, and sent him to Roanoke, Va. Not even someplace nice, like Antarctica, but Roanoke--home of the largest block of coal cost of Mississippi. I guess I can also blame my father for not fleeing northward as soon as the Army released him, remaining in the South and scaling my fate...
...next morning, after sleeping through a bunch of horrific nightmares, involving me, Duluth and an endless coal shaft, I read the first newspaper column about myself and what was termed "THE article...
...fact, Fish faces a problem that he has "seven or eight strong doubles players" and only six slots for them. "It's a matter of working to find the combination. The coal said...
...still burns brightly in the hearts and imaginations of many Europeans, decades after unions first began to stand up for the working man and woman. But labor's problems--chronic unemployment, dwindling membership, the shifting nature of work, waning public support--are immense. If the failure of the British coal miners' strike holds a lesson for European labor, it may be this: the future of unionized workers is inextricably bound up with the health of the companies and industries in which they work. Unions, like companies and industries, cannot survive unless they learn how to change...
South African operations: "Virtually nil," according to spokesman A. Newell Garden. A wholly-owned Raytheon subsidiary, Badger Co. of Cambridge, employees two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon has no equity interest in the company and does not have any factories there, Garden said...