Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a reservoir broke and flooded an iron mine near Lengede, Saxony, two weeks ago, 79 workers scrambled to safety, and ten more were rescued. The remaining 40, entombed without food for ten days, were given up for dead. The giant oil drill that had bored the rescue shafts for the others was dismantled and started on its way back to The Netherlands. The crowds of reporters and onlookers drifted away. All that remained was to hold a memorial service...
...investigation was launched to see if there had been negligence at the mine, and the East German radio even managed to find a propaganda issue-capitalist callousness. Meanwhile, the rescue work continued. The drill had to work slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer...
...Nickels & Dimes. Miles missed its first possibility soon after it was founded in 1905. Finding coal on the campus, Tennessee Coal and Iron eased the school to another site and started a mine. That left Miles with little more than its name, which honors the first bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Negro denomination that founded the school. This year the church was able to give Miles only $26,000, or less than one month's payroll. As for the rest, says President Pitts, "all these years Miles has been supported by nickels and dimes from washerwomen...
Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London...
...look he gives the camera might just possibly fail to affect the personnel manager of a Carthaginian salt mine. It will certainly make every warmhearted moviegoer care and care deeply what happens to Domenico-and to many more than Domenico. For in this remarkable first film, the work of a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, Domenico is the surrogate of every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that...