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Rather than turn the party over to the rash and mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee...
...protest against a permanent fact of life, and in itself it has become just such a fact. Says one striking miner: ''These gun thugs call a lot of times during the night and say, 'We're going to blow your house up. You've got twelve hours to live.' But you get so you don't worry about that." The Only Assets. Ironically, much of Hazard's tragedy is the result of a wise decision. More than a decade ago, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis realized that the coal industry...
Captain Tim Taylor is still suffering the effects of an automobile accident, and linemates Ike Ikauniks and Gome Kinasewich are both plagued by miner injuries. If any of these players are still ailing next week the Crimson could have its hands full...
College Courses. The school's endowment is $25.3 million (book value ), which is why it can hand out scholarships freely. This fall 28% of the student body is down for $260,000 in aid, including such all-out help as full tuition for the son of a coal miner with a yearly income of $1,975. Even those who pay the full $1,800, which is low for top schools, are in a sense on scholarship. Andover spends $3,400 a year on each...
...toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned man in his last hours...