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...United Mine Workers have an even stronger tradition than the Auto-workers of rejecting contracts negotiated by their leaders and hitting the picket line. Five times in the past two decades, workers have gone on strike. In 1977-78 the miners were out for 111 days, and in 1981 the walkout lasted 72 days. But U.M.W. President Trumka this year was determined to break precedent. The coal miner turned lawyer wanted to win better salaries and better job security-without recourse to a strike. When the talks in Washington ended, he claimed to have secured a "totally non-concessionary" agreement...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
...Olympic flame, which was carried through the Boston area in May, has been stored in a miner's lamp on Beacon Hill. For the start of the Games a relay of former Olympians from the Boston area will carry-it to the Stadium for the torch lighting during the opening ceremonies...
What started as a venturesome symbol, attacked as blatant commercialism by the Soviets when they boycotted the Summer Games, has become a national phenomenon, provoking an outpouring of good feeling for community and country. Flown to the U.S. in miner's lamps from Greece, the Olympic flame is being carried on a serpentine 82-day, 8,700-mile journey through 33 states to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The runners include more than 200 regulars (a team of experienced amateur runners sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local...
DIED. William Egan, 69, Alaska's first elected Governor and son of a gold miner, who led the drive to statehood for his vast, thinly populated territory; of cancer; in Anchorage. To push the cause, he organized and presided over a convention in 1955-56 to write a constitution and elect Senators and a Representative as if the territory were already a state; named a "Senator," he went to Washington to lobby for the statehood bill that finally passed in June 1958. Elected to three gubernatorial terms (1958, 1962,1970), he dominated the state Democratic Party for more than...