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...learn that Britain was not Guam. Most Americans took Britain's role as a U.S. ally for granted. If the chips ever went down, Britain could scarcely play any other role. And there was still a vast reservoir of British good will toward the U.S.-as a British miner's wife illustrated last week by soundly bussing U.S. Ambassador Douglas.* Nevertheless, Britain was a resentful and reluctant ally...
...Working his way, he studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
...ends of his handlebar mustache, hustled his family off to Washington and swore that his daughter was going to be a lady. Evalyn promptly swore that she wouldn't. She didn't. But in the next 50 years she proved that with $100 million, a wild Irish miner's daughter could do almost everything else under...
Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...
...view of this fact, Forster believes that the "raison d'etre" of criticism can only be established on "miner grounds," such as its purely educational or analitical functions...