Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINE by Richard Brautigan. 108 Seasons Foundation...
...Bell, who concentrated on the man who is known to his countrymen as "Numero Uno," was surprised by the utter plainness of Agnelli's office above his factory in Turin. To Bell, it was "the sort of place you might expect the smelter superintendent of a Montana copper mine to have." Then the interview moved to Agnelli's chalet on the top of Turin's highest hill, 1,200 ft. above the city. "The breathtaking view of the snowcapped Alps taking up half the horizon," said Bell, "more than made up for the spartan factory quarters...
...will admit that what disturbs me about this movie, which is nothing more than a 30-minute cartoon (but others in the series are coming), is that I do not know these animals. And so maybe I am as guilty as Walt Disney, because they were never mine either. But I know how to leave them alone in the Hundred Acre Wood. What I don't like is this tampering. Trees can look at trees (I don't believe Walter Hickel)--we don't need roads to help people look at them...
Along the Middle East's frontiers, bristling with weaponry, rolled a drumfire of incidents, any one of which could spark a new war. Israeli and Jordanian artillery dueled across the Jordan valley. Arab fedayeen guerrillas mortared a copper mine and three Israeli settlements, killing an 18-year-old army girl. In reprisal, Israelis strafed fedayeen positions, and jet-escorted helicopters blasted a Jordanian police car, killing three security men. From Lebanon, long the most peaceable of Israel's neighbors, Arab guerrillas rained rocket shells on the town of Qiryat Shemona and a nearby kibbutz, killing two civilians...
THIS IS AN open letter from an individual, a radical, to other individuals about the crisis we face together. It is not an appeal to the conscience of liberals as a class, for by that is usually meant a deal whereby you compromise your conscience, if I compromise mine, and we both secretly try to suppress each other. This was, I take it, the general structure of the old style politics of the United Fronts of the 1930's. We don't need...