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...half of the coal by surface mining, using gigantic 20-story shovels that can crunch 120 cu. yds. of earth in one bite, exposing the coal veins for an army of other machines to attack. Mechanization has come to underground mines, too. In the big ones, miners no longer loosen the coal with explosives and pry it from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal...
...days a week, Meadow gets up before 7:00 and runs four miles by the Charles to "loosen up." He then goes to a converted squash court in Dunster House, which serves as a weight room...
...Crimson was happy because a) it had won its seventh consecutive match of the season, b) in the process, it had surrendered just one game (out of 28) to the Engineers, and c) this match had allowed the racquetmen to loosen up between the Princeton victory of a week and a half ago and this Saturday's match with Penn, which will determine the intercollegiate champion...
...where he was born on Feb. 6,1911, Galesburg, Monmouth and Dixon. As a freshman at 250-student Eureka College, a Disciples of Christ school, he was one of the leaders of a week-long student strike that forced college officials to rescind cuts in the educational program and loosen puritanical rules that forbade smoking, drinking and dancing. An indifferent student, he concentrated on debating, dramatics and football...
President Ford, who has been drawing ringing cheers from audiences of businessmen by promising to get the Government "off your back," took a first step last week toward making good on his rhetoric. He sent to Congress a plan to loosen greatly federal control of airlines-the tightly regulated industry -with the aim of introducing enough new competition to lower fares significantly. The response to this plan could not have been more different from that to Ford's speeches: airline executives forecast disaster if the President's proposed reforms ever go fully into effect, and critics predicted, probably...