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...people, many of them homeless, died from hypothermia over the long Christmas weekend. Detroit's Benjamin Ranson, 49, lived in a car and died in it, curled up between bucket seats. In Tipple Hill, W. Va., Takeisha and Stacey Craighead, ages seven and five, were killed when a coal-burning stove set fire to their flimsy house. Retiree George Toomer, 77, who lived alone in Akron (-14°), locked the house keys in his car and froze to death in his garage...
...entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with damaged goods peddled to the holiday crowds. Here and there one can find a pleasant or ambitious film, but none fills the Christmas stocking with delight. Moviegoers are advised to ask for a lump of coal...
There is no reason in economic history why the American cowboy ought to be any more interesting than, say, the American steelworker or coal miner. Yet in some complex translation of reality into the collective American myth, the cowboy became a national ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none...
DIED. Richard Llewellyn, 76, British author whose bestselling lyrical novel about a heroic family of Welsh coal miners, How Green Was My Valley (1939), was made into an Oscar-winning film by Director John Ford; after a heart attack; in Dublin. His 27 other works include the popular 1943 novel None But the Lonely Heart...
...Democrats' highest elected female official. A former home-economics teacher, she soundly beat State Senator Jim Bunning, 52, a former major league pitcher. Neither candidate had much administrative experience, and neither focused very clearly on state issues such as acid rain and the decline of the coal industry. Collins only tepidly supports the Equal Rights Amendment. Bunning came off as an unimaginative conservative...