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...strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility's plant. In the snow-covered hills of western Pennsylvania, roadblocks set up by striking pickets, sometimes 500 strong, forced coal-truck drivers to dump up to 100 tons at a time on the highways. Any drivers who refused could count on having their windshields smashed and their tires punctured with ice picks...
...long night from the first faceoff. Harvard could do nothing right in the first period, reverting mostly to the dump and pray tactics that are never in a team strategy for the Beanpot final...
...lengthening of the strike increased the chances of violence. Miners have already stopped some coal headed for utilities from non-union mines. Dozens of coal trucks have been forced at gunpoint to dump their loads. Towboats hauling coal barges up Pennsylvania's Monongahela River had to abandon operations when they were fired on by miners. "I don't like to see anyone suffer," says Jim Elias, 50, a miner in Greene County, Pa. "But we've got to get a decent contract somehow. I'm not the kind to fire a shot or throw a rock...
Blodgett Pool and the Soldier's Field Track and Tennis Hall lost power last night for about three hours when a dump truck accidentally backed into a light pole and disrupted an underground hightension wire, the attendant of the athletic facility at the time of the black-out said last night...
...state workers, 4,000 National Guardsmen and 300 federal troops, some from Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, to help clear the snow. One of the first tasks was to open a runway at Logan International Airport so that the Army could fly in additional front-end loaders, dump trucks and emergency electrical generators...