Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stevedore Type. When the first draft of the book was finished in the fall of 1967. Lerner decided that no one would do but Katharine Hepburn. "One performance by Hepburn in something of mine and I'd die happy," Lerner told TIME Reporter Mary Cronin last week. He got Hepburn, although at 60 she had never sung a professional note in her life. Chanel was pleased with the selection. "She's very very expensive, you know." Coco confesses, however, that "I'd always thought of her as such a gendarme type-so sure of herself." (Hepburn characterizes...
Nader had an acerbic response to the message: "It would not have been approved by William McKinley." The consumer's popular hero had reason to be satisfied in a week of other victories. The House passed a mine-safety bill setting limits on coal dust in mines for the first time. A congressional committee began hearings on railroad accidents, which Nader claims are responsible for 1,800 deaths a year. And the Department of Transportation issued a policy statement promising to make public soon the names of auto brands that fail to meet Federal safety standards. Next, Nader plans...
...revolution. After that, I coudn't convince myself-honestly-that anything more than token change could be achieved from within the educational system. And what about honesty? In arguments with an acquaintance in SDS (WSA). I invariably had to acqiesce to his terms, for he disposed of mine systematically. My ideas were extremely bourgeois, totally unrelated to the real oppression of the working class, and diversionary from social action to overthrow the profiteering capitalistic order...
Though Dunlop often holds federal appointments, he refuses to connect himself with any Administration-including the present one. "George Schultz [the Secretary of Labor] is an old friend Boston-Washington flight table ("Ten after eleven of mine, I knew him when he was a graduate student at M. I. T .... And though I'm not exactly known as a Republican, a labor-management dispute is no respecter of political parties." Is the government a third party in his mediations? "The trouble is," he grumbles, "the government is umpteen parties. Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Housing, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service...
...workers, members of United Mine Workers of America local 12003, District 50, are on strike against the company, and were there, one picket said "to embarrass Mr. Goldston...