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...Bloody Harlan...
...Crimson freshmen, defeated only by Pennsylvania, also wrestle Yale tomorrow. Starters for Johnny Lee's team will be: Bob DeVore (123), George Doub (130), Bill Smith (137), Tom Owsley (147), Steve Schultz (157), Lee Freeman (167), Charlie Long (177), and heavyweight Harlan Noel...
...Borinage mines are small, obsolete and uneconomic. As in the U.S.'s depressed Harlan County, Ky. (TIME, Feb. 23), coal seams are ever deeper and narrower, and the extraction cost is far above that of the big, modernized mines in the German Ruhr. Last year's recession created a glut in European coal-the surplus now stands at 26 million tons, with 7,000,000 in Belgium alone. The formation of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community-creating a common market in these products in France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-finally forced...
...years ago, 32 big mines were operating; today there are nine. The number of working miners has dipped from 12,500 in 1950 to 5,000. Few other jobs are available. Harlan is all hill and hollow, and the hollows are too narrow for farming or factories...
Says Levi McGeorge, pastor of the Closplint Church of God: "I've been preachin' the gospel for 25 years, and I've never seen a time so bad." Adds 63-year-old Ben Middleton, a third-generation Harlan resident and a power in county Republican politics: "I watched this county build up, and now I'm awatchin' it go down. I don't see no hope...