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...where a relative lives: "They lined up the young men and asked those who were willing to go to Africa to raise their hands. Anyone who didn't raise his hand was then told to explain why-and he better have a pretty good excuse, like illness or hardship in the family. Otherwise, he'd get a reputation for shirking his responsibilities. The vigilance subcommittee of the C.D.R. (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution) would keep an especially close...
...some old folks with scant savings, inflation means hardship. Helen Ferrone, 68, a retired apartment-house manager, exhausted most of her savings during her late husband's long siege with cancer. Now, struggling to live on Social Security, she is trying to reduce the $60 a month that she must spend on medicines for a variety of ailments. Says she: "When I'm having a good day I try to cut down on the painkillers for my arthritis, though the doctor says I shouldn't, because the medicine should stay in my bloodstream all the time...
...terms of social and economic policy, this philosophy translates itself into social irresponsibility and regulated capitalist industry. Tyndall professes a doctrine of social obligation only for the physically incapacitated. For all other victims of structural unemployment or poverty, Tyndall allows only "the stiff breeze of compulsion to work, and hardship if they...
Another impediment to a settlement has been the fact that the longer the strike continues the better it looks for the miners. Until recently they had endured all the hardship, but now they see only too clearly that the operators and the rest of the country are beginning to share in their suffering. So hardly a miner seems disposed to give in. The men and women who perform some of life's grimmest labor under ground are not likely to be pushovers up above. "Some of us saw the strike coming a long way off," says Lou Kovach...
...strike last December, a Cabin Creek miner defiantly told TIME Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt that he and his neighbors were prepared to stay out of the pits until "she freezes over." Last week Wurmstedt revisited the hollow and found that 2½ months without paychecks has caused hardship for the miner shut made them even more obstinate. His report: ft "IP his is a war," says Miner Mike Adkins, 34. "The stockpiles of coal are down, so we're up to bat. I'm tired of hearing about people being laid off because of the coal shortage. The hell...