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What disturbs Miller most about the opposition is its chilling effect on his campaign to reform the U.M.W. In four years, the curt, pasty-faced Miller, a 22-year veteran of the mines and a victim of black-lung disease, has accomplished a lot. In 1974 he negotiated the richest contract in U.M.W. history, providing miners a 54% wage-and-benefit increase over three years. He has given members the right to elect board members and district officers, increased the union's safety staff, and lobbied toward passage in Congress a bill liberalizing compensation for black-lung sufferers...
...Carl A.L. Binger '10, honorary consultant in Psychiatry to the University Health Services, died Monday at his home in Cambridge at the age of 86. Binger pioneered the development of oxygen therapy and of oxygen tents for patients suffering from lung disease...
...accused Yablonski of not helping his 1964 campaign for re-election to the presidency, although Boyle took District 5 by a four-to-one margin. He charged Yablonski with insubordination because Yablonski had fought in the Pennsylvania legislature for the passage of a law compensating miners stricken with "black lung." Boyle thought the time was not right for the passage of such an act. He set out to stifle Yablonski by making him director of Labor's Nonpartisan League, the union's feeble political arm. Yablonski decided to challenge Boyle in the 1969 election. This decision led to his murder...
...five months, undercover police had paid $67,000 for $2.4 million worth of stolen goods; the take included cars, stereos, TV sets, firearms, 140 typewriters, a bundle of Government checks worth $1.2 million, 1,500 credit cards, a truckload of 300 hijacked air hockey games and a heart-lung resuscitator. The police and feds had video-taped every transaction, and even got the unsuspecting sellers to show drivers' licenses or other identification. ("We told them we had to be sure who we were dealing with," said one officer.) The imaginative ploy, which was similar to one in New York...
Senator Birch Bayh, 48. Evidence of abnormality in right lung is attributed to histoplasmosis, a fungal infection, but his doctor advises "continued monitoring." Suffers irritation of sciatic nerve in both thighs and "functionally insignificant heart murmur." General physical condition "excellent...