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...would have hoped that the Coal- ition would be supporting dialogue with peoplelike ourselves and General Mitzna rather thantrying to impose censorship on the Harvardcommunity," said David A. Guberman '71, nationalpresident of Friends of Shalom Achshav, a groupfavoring peaceful settlement with thePalestinians...
...University could do little to end a bitter labor dispute at a coal mining company by selling its stock in the corporation, investment experts say, but Harvard Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 could persuade the company to sit down at the bargaining table...
Financial analysts said that Stone, who sits on the coal mining company's 13-member board of directors, could be helpful in settling the six-month dispute...
...strapping six-footer, Bi "got into the weight-lifting craze about two years ago, when it was big." He still pumps iron each morning before breakfast, which he takes at a local restaurant with four colleagues. Eating out is actually cheaper than cooking at home for Bi, since coal is very expensive. Besides, Bi is saving for new eyeglasses. He hates his thick lenses and believes he would not need them if he had grown up in the West. "Until about five years ago, we didn't have electricity," he says. "I read by candlelight till then. My eyes...
...good way to catch a reader's attention is to start off with a bang. This book does so. Chapter 1, first sentence: "The most perilous work in America is the harvest by hand of sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later...