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...hardly a miner seems disposed to give in. The men and women who perform some of life's grimmest labor under ground are not likely to be pushovers up above. "Some of us saw the strike coming a long way off," says Lou Kovach, 50, a miner in Masontown, Pa. "And most of us were ready for a long one. I still bowl and go uptown for a few beers every day, and I'm not hurting." But some miners have been feeling the pinch and have been relying on food stamps for groceries; others consider food stamps...
Merchants try to be generous with credit. "We've carried good customers up to $600 before in strike times," says David Howard, a grocer in Masontown, Pa., "and we'll do it again, just as long as we possibly can." Bars are doing brisker business than before. Remarks Tilly Bohan, manager of the Trocadero in Masontown: "They say miners come into this world poor and go out poor, but I never saw the day that, strike or no strike, a miner couldn't come up with money for a beer...
...Harvard placekicker Gary Bosnic about his first trip to Cambridge, in the spring of his senior year at Albert Gallatin H.S. in Masontown (pop: 5000), and the son of a coal miner will tell you flat out "I couldn't wait for the day to end--I didn't want to be that far from home...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike, where he cried for help and said he was being kidnaped. Police stopped the car, which also contained two white men and a black. One of the whites convinced the cops that the boy was mentally ill. They then drove on to an apartment in Masontown, Pa., 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. Lockwood was held captive there for 2½ days...
...Testament Missionary Fellowship, at first resisted deprogramming. According to Biff Alexander: "He said we were all possessed by the devil, and that he was suffering for Jesus. He spoke in tongues." During the ordeal Wes was not allowed to leave the apartment where he was held in Masontown. "I worked harder that night than I had in years," says Father Flohr. "You have to talk and talk and talk until your head falls off." As Wes himself recounted the experience last week to TIME'S Lois Armstrong, "they began pulling out Scripture, and asking me if I had answers...