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...been working all our lives in the cotton mills, and you can't take no more. I just wish they'd get somebody up there that's got some sense to run the mill without trying to push the help to death." --Lillian Harrell, J.P. Stevens worker...
...funny but I never thought of myself as living in a mill village, though I suppose I did. The houses all around us were millhouses. My husband says that in some towns, mill people were called 'cotton-mill trash.' Well, I guess maybe they were here too, but as far as we were concerned, we didn't ever hear...
Jesus preached a radical way of life that cares for the poor and oppressed, and he accepted the suffering visited upon him by those who could not bear his message. It takes far more courage to love people as Jesus did than to run the quasireligious money mill that Falwell does...
DIED. Gracie Fields, 81, sassy English chanteuse and actress who started as a shilling-a-week trouper in working men's clubs and in her heyday became the world's highest-paid star; in Capri, Italy. Born Grace Stansfield in the mill town of Rochdale, she sang at age eight in the local cinema. Though never a beauty and hardly a diva, she set music halls roaring in the '20s with her cheeky Lancastrian banter, stouthearted warbling and flea-scratching, "low-but-clean" brand of clowning. Her 1931 film debut in Sally in Our Alley gave...
...penetrate to the core of an issue through barriers of scientific and judicial jargon. He points out that concentration on the dilemma of waste disposal distracts the public's attention from the equally insoluble and more immediate problem of radiation leakage throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from mine to mill to reactor. He assails an emphasis on energy conservation through onerous consumer restraint. He says far larger gains are possible from introduction of energy-efficient design to construction and industry. And he prints the straightforward formula linking rems and death that was missing from all the confusing press accounts...