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Happy Mine. By contrast, last week's incident at Western Deep−known ironically, as "the happy mine" because of its relatively modern facilities and good labor relations−grew out of a dispute triggered indirectly by a 46% wage increase. Rock-drill machine operators resented the narrowing of the pay differential between themselves and less skilled workers who had been moved into higher wage brackets. But the roots of the dispute reach far deeper and suggest the widespread dissatisfaction among black workers in South Africa with the gaping disparity between their wages and those of whites. According...
...enough has been written about the cumulative effect of images, arranged for artful purposes, as in the great innovative LIFE picture essays like W. Eugene Smith's "Country Doctor" and "Spanish Village," Leonard McCombe's "Cowboy," and Mark Kauffman's mock-heroic epic of a Marine drill instructor going about his martial business...
...three services' ROTCs required at least four ROTC half-courses, some form of drill, and a number of regular Faculty courses to be approved by the commanding officer of each student's ROTC unit. Each service provided allowances to help cover books and required uniforms...
That is the traditional lament of the woman athlete trained from childhood to win games rather than beaux. In Evert's case, the drill started so early that she could barely hold a racket. Her father, Jimmy Evert, a onetime touring tournament player, is the tennis pro at the Holiday Park Courts in Fort Lauderdale. "One day when I was six," Chrissie recalls, "my dad took me to a park. He put a racket in my hand and threw balls to me. I missed them all. We did this every day. After a few weeks I started hitting...
...years, Sybil remained oblivious of their existence; she knew only that she blacked out and suffered terrible amnesiac lapses. Once, in her fifth-grade classroom, she came back to herself in the midst of an arithmetic drill and thought she should be in the third grade...