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Victor Sanchez de Fuentes Battle Creek, Mich...
David J. McEwen Troy, Mich...
Margaret Stanford Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...leave the skeleton too brittle to withstand even minimal stress. Indeed the bones of the spine can become so papery that they collapse; five vertebrae may fill the space normally occupied by three, causing a protuberance known as "dowager's hump." Says Eleanore Bennink, 73. of Southgate, Mich.: "I was 5 ft. 3 in. when it started. Now I'm 4 ft. 10 in. The pain was horrendous." The condition is prevalent among older women because their frames are smaller than men's and after menopause the ovaries cease to produce estrogen, the female hormone that plays...
...under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...