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...tumbled along with oil prices. Exxon Corp., the largest U.S. industrial firm, plans to recruit at just 19 schools this season, compared with 50 a year ago. Part of the slack is being taken up by computer and electronics companies, as well as fast-growing younger firms. Says Arthur Letcher, director of graduate placement at the Wharton School: "The Fortune 500 companies are unquestionably not hiring as many students, but small companies in high-technology and health products industries are here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lesson | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...eight miners. Though their bodies have been located, concentrations of methane-and fears of yet another explosion-prevented their immediate removal. Funerals for men who died in the first explosion were going on when the second occurred. Since then, church bells have tolled continuously in memorial services throughout Letcher and Harlan counties, the two impoverished Appalachian areas steeped in coal-mining history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at Black Mountain | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Patricia W. Letcher Lodi, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 16, 1974 | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...student held aloft a plastic bag full of garbage and intoned: "This is my bag." Another student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake Erie. In Letcher County, Ky., part of the most ravaged section of Appalachia, 1,200 students buried a trash-filled casket. A young Denver group called CARP (Citizens Concerned About Radiation Pollution) gave the Colorado Environmental Rapist of the Year Award to the Atomic Energy Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Memento Mori to the Earth | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...FRANK S. LETCHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

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