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William's relationship with his father compensates for this weakness. The sargeant-major joined the army after surviving a coal mine accident in which his best friend slowly died. After campaigns in India, Africa and Europe, he comes back to his mining town still practicing army life. As is so often the case of frustrated fathers, he channels his ambitions into his son, determined he will learn trigonometry in order to be a gunnery officer and French in order to be a gentleman. Sillitoe's literary talents are fitted to this type of relationship...
...Administration seems in no mood to come to the rescue. How much help such moves would be to the Youngstown area is questionable. The iron ore and coking coal deposits that originally drew mills to the Mahoning valley have long since been mined out, and the inland complex can no longer compete with steel centers boasting deep-water ports. Youngstown's days as the nation's steeliest steel city seem to be over...
...boycott would seriously damage the South African minority regime as the country has no known oil deposits. U.S. firms have played an important role in enabling this regime to overcome this vulnerability, by helping it set up plants to extract oil from coal, and look for oil. Most important, U.S. firms have invested heavily in South African oil refineries--more than doubling their investments in recent years--giving South Africa a hold over other countries in the region, which depend on South Africa for refined...
...consumers. The House agreed. But last week Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said his committee "will not vote these big taxes" unless the receipts go not to consumers but for use in developing new sources of energy such as gas from coal. If the tax is passed without a rebate, consumer bills for fuel and petroleum-related products would be increased $12 billion annually...
...Coal Conversion The House-passed measure would force most utilities and in dustries to burn coal, in plentiful supply, instead of oil or natural gas. The full Senate passed a milder version two weeks ago. It would let utilities keep burning oil but ban them from using natural gas piped across state lines. The measure also provides automatic exemptions for plants that could not meet present standards for air quality if they converted to coal...