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...lives and families of only 180 coal miners. But the reddogging media men from nearby cities and from the East Coast, slowly relearning the bumps and bends in Kentucky Highway 18 that their predecessors had learned 40 years before, knew they had a story. Violence had erupted in Harlan County, Bloody Harlan County, once more. Union men, their wives and children were struggling against scabs, state troopers, operator-owned judges, and union-busting Duke Power Company men with picket lines, prayers, pistols and even switches and brooms...
Arnold Miller's UMW reform administration was up against its first great test, and it was widely acknowledged that if the "new UMW" could succeed in re-organizing a mine in Harlan County--for 15 years the stronghold of murderer and corrupt UMW president W.A. (Tony) Boyle--it could succeed anywhere. Reformer Jock Yablonski had feared to campaign there in 1969. The Boyle henchmen who slayed Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds had done the bidding of District 19 officials...
Well, they do such things--and more--in Harlan County and Anderson County and the West End of Louisville. And when leapin Wesley Cox and savvied Jimmy Dan Conner take it on the tube Saturday and Monday nights, it should become abundantly clear why it's just morally wrong for Wooden and Co.--superb as they are--to win the NCAAs...
From H.G. Wells to George Orwell, and from Isaac Asimov to Harlan Ellison, science fiction writers have cared about the future. Whether science fiction can retain its present form remains a question. Ironically, the major drawback of many of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is their almost paranoid concern with the purity of science fiction in the future. Like cold War Warriors faced with detente, the once isolated science fiction writer must confront a vast new audience that contains many of his old enemies...
...Harlan J. Bauer Wheaton...