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...Path Between the Seas looks back with frank admiration on the men and machines that toiled 44 years to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the Isthmus of Panama. Historian David McCullough, 44, author of The Johnstown Flood and The Great Bridge, skirts such contemporary controversies as U.S. control over the Canal Zone. There is matter enough for him in history. The isthmus belonged to Colombia until 1903, when the U.S., under Teddy Roosevelt, encouraged a local revolt and sent American warships to block the landing of Colombian troops. Congressional doves objected to the gunboat diplomacy, but they were...
will go to any length-and depth-for a good picture, a fact she proved during a foray into Pennsylvania coal country in search of women miners. Joining a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift near Johnstown, Bergen rode 800 ft. into the earth for a work session with her subjects. Her enterprise was not universally approved. "When I returned the next day, the foreman met me at the entrance and said the men had threatened to strike if I went back down," said Candice. "The men feel that their decades in the mines have been obliterated by the media...
...understand the cities," warns the director of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, which runs programs aimed at developing skills and leadership. Son of an immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program, and a decade of his community action programs culminated in the establishment...
...year, last week's special vote to fill a House vacancy in Pennsylvania's Twelfth District, was widely viewed as an early gauge of Watergate's wallop at the polls. The results turned out to be almost as muddy as the Conemaugh River waters that submerged Johnstown, the district's largest city, in the historic flood of 1889. Barring a reversal in a vote review, the Democrats captured a seat that had been held by the late John P. Saylor, a Republican, for 24 years-hardly an encouraging sign to jittery G.O.P. vote seekers...
...race matched Harry M. Fox, 49, Saylor's loyal administrative assistant for all 13 of his terms, against Democrat John P. Murtha Jr., 41, a boyish-looking car-wash operator in Johnstown, three-term representative in the Pennsylvania house and lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserve. The holder of two Purple Hearts awarded during volunteer service in Viet Nam in 1966-67, Murtha becomes the first Indochina veteran to win election to Congress...