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...last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied in announcing that prices would go up after Jan. 1. Economists guessed that the increases would set the pattern...
Edward Lewis Bartlett, 54, U.S. Senator. A onetime gold miner, Seattle-born "Bob"' Bartlett has been a territorial delegate to Congress for 14 years, made himself the Washington symbol of Alaskan statehood ambition, contributed much of the hard work that built the reality of the 49th star, had no trouble beating Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson...
...morning last week Osage was rocked awake by a blast bigger and closer than the ones that every miner had learned to sleep through. The explosion of almost a full case of dynamite-which any real man in Osage can handle in the dark-gutted the town's biggest building, the 17-room school. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston, 42, quickly reinforced by squads of FBI men, found that the bomb had been set off by mining detonation wire, which would work from the headlamp battery a miner wears on his hip, went to work on such fragmentary other clues...
...consuls and do-gooders from foreign lands seemed willing to help only the young and able-"a miner or a ditchdigger. We have a widow with nine children. No one ever came for her." Pire's idea was to build special "European villages" for the D.P.s-not a separate community, a potential ghetto, but "a neighborhood glued onto a city." Often he ran into ugly resistance: one Swiss village refused to allow him to start a home for aged refugees because it did not want to enlarge its cemetery; a German burgomaster got a letter threatening dire consequences should...
Hope for the remaining 48 miners still missing rose briefly, then ebbed as the DOSCO rescue director announced that there was really no chance. The digging went on. At 4:45 a.m. on the ninth day, a miner 12,600 ft. from the pithead heard scratchings. "It sounded like a cat," he said. "I couldn't believe my ears." Again there was a frantic scrambling through 12 ft. of loose debris, and two hours, 40 minutes later seven more survivors began to come out. At week's end, 29 were still missing...