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...sounds, in the words of one state politician, "like Gomer Pyle at the Second Coming." Then, under federal court order, the yellow school buses began to integrate schools in Louisville and the rest of Jefferson County, and suddenly Carroll was sharply challenged by Republican Robert E. Gable, 41, a coal and lumber millionaire...
...strike, which has so far affected some 100 institutions, hardly shocked Britons, who in the past two years have lived through major work stoppages by coal miners, engineering and transportation workers. Most physicians remained politely on duty in their hospitals, but they refused to do all routine work. At Middlesex Hospital, one of London's best, 200 striking doctors unveiled a banner made of used operating smocks, each bearing a large handprinted letter. The banner said: END DICTATORSHIP. SACK MRS. CASTLE...
Another proposal, sponsored by Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, got 39 votes. It would have forced oil companies to get out of such other energy businesses as uranium production and coal mining. Should it become law, Continental Oil, for example, would have to divest Consolidation Coal, the nation's second largest coal producer...
...favor of the radicals. The moderates, by deserting Wilson over the Common Market issue (they voted, with the Tories, to keep Britain in the EEc) lost key positions of strength. After Edward Heath's brinksmanship on the edge of class war failed to rally the nation during the Coal Strike of 1974, Wilson took office on the principle that only a Labour government could come to a rational deal with the Trade Unions. He is now trying to work out such a contract with the support of Jack Hones, the president of the Transport and General Workers Union, Britain...
...million walking skeletons in Calcutta; simultaneously, some of the country's 565 maharajahs continued to test the aphrodisiacal powers of crushed diamonds. The viceroy's house in New Delhi employed nearly 5,000 servants and 418 gardeners. But back home, England reeled under postwar debts and shortages. Coal was scarce, and a bottle of liquor cost $35. For reasons as much financial as idealistic, the Labor government of Clement Attlee was determined to drop the white man's burden. But there was a hitch: the bloodbath following England's exit threatened to be worse than...