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...President's party; a phone is installed virtually everywhere Reagan pauses even for a few minutes. In the process, says one White House aide, "they basically redid the Barbados phone system" and left it far more sophisticated than before. The aide explains that "it was too expensive to haul a lot of the equipment out," so the gear was simply turned over to the islanders...
...twisting roads of Martin County. Kentucky, to guess that the area is the second largest coal producing county in the country. The mines are not immediately visible from the road, but the coal companies have utilized a majority of the county's land to provide about 5000 jobs and haul out well over 9 million tons of coal each year...
...uninitiated, full-scale coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle through the streets...
...narrowing gradually from the shoulder to a nip at the hip and featuring a one-button closing. His women's line will concentrate on "cleanness and wit" and will feature oversize coats and jackets in wool flannel that will remind some observers of the wardrobe a flapper would haul along on her way to a little boola-boola...