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...most dangerous occupation: 12 to 20 times as dangerous as driving a truck, for instance. The Associated Press reports that "a man who spends his life working in the mines faces one chance in 12 of being killed in an accident, at least one chance in five of suffering lung disease. He also can figure on suffering three or four injuries severe enough to keep him off the job. An airplane pilot can get insurance at standard rates; a coal miner cannot...
...fire and explosion and roof falls kill fewer men than the slow stifling black lung disease-coal workers' pneumoconiosis, in proper medical terminology. "Black lung" is just that: a lung so clogged with the steady accumulation of coal particles that it no longer functions. When both of a miner's lungs are coal-black and completely clogged, they stop functioning, and he dies. The process, being cumulative, is slow and agonizing. The U. S. Public Health Service estimates that 125,000 miners-active and retired-are afflicted with black lung: and admits that the figure may be conservative, because reports...
...Embracing Theory. Such a constellation of scholars attested to a renewed and heightened interest in Lonergan, who is now writing extensively again after recuperating from a 1 965 operation for lung cancer. That they came from so many disciplines demonstrated that Lonergan's influence has gone far beyond his original field of theology. In fact, says Fordham Jesuit Bernard Tyrell, Lonergan has become a true "phi losopher of culture": in his grasp of the process of understanding that un derlies every science, he is the 20th cen tury counterpart of a Renaissance...
Lonergan, who attended the congress sessions in a seldom-varying uniform of plaid sports shirt, slacks and windbreaker, listened attentively to both praise and criticism. At 65, with only one lung, he was remarkably energetic throughout the grueling week-long conference, dutifully setting aside spare moments to read many of the 700,000 words that participants had written about him. "I don't care whether they agree with me or dis agree with me," he said. "What matters is that they are here, talking with each other." Seminarian Joseph Collins, a well-to-do young activist who personally paid...
Died. Joe Pyne, 45, radio and TV talk-show host who made an institution of the insult; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. A World War II Marine with a wooden leg and a chip on his shoulder, Pyne devoted his programs largely to hucksters and kooks, whom he ridiculed with such niceties as "Jerk," "Meathead," and "Go gargle with razor blades." He delighted in saying, "I'm not a nice guy, and I don't want to be." At his peak in 1966, Pyne's programs occupied 27 hours of air time each week, and earned...