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Faces covered with grit and hearts filled with distrust toward both union and company leaders, the nation's 165,000 male and 800 female unionized coal miners walked off their jobs last weekend, 48 hours before the expiration Monday midnight of the United Mine Workers' contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over...
Kipling, Samuel Smiles, Horatio Alger, Dr. Pangloss, J. Paul Getty, John D. Rockefeller, the Carnegies (Andrew and Dale) and countless other evangelists of true grit have all in their time promoted the same if-at-first-you-don't-succeed philosophy for nearly a century. From the evidence, there was probably never a time or place in which their lessons were more applicable or more richly rewarded than they are in the U.S. today. Heigh...
...aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical swinger done in Andrews Sisters' fashion, You Could Drive a Person Crazy (Company). The entire evening swings...
...will all but wipe out these profits, however. That jeopardizes future loans from the government, which are essential to provide the $425 million that Leyland needs to make a new version of its low-priced Mini. As of now, Leyland will need all its skill, resources and bulldog British grit to keep turning out its present line of Austins, Triumphs, Rovers and Jaguars...
...Dangers. In a grimy arc, from Nebraska through the plains of Kansas and Colorado, on into the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, scenes right out of The Grapes of Wrath suddenly materialized in the swirl of dust billowing up to 12,000 feet. The grit sifted into houses, causing eyes to burn and coating tongues. As visibility neared zero, motorists pulled to sides of roads, and highways were ordered closed. At week's end the dust had blown over the southeastern states, turning the sky a milky yellow. To many worried Westerners, the worst dust storm in some...