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...Kremlin was plainly alarmed that the strikes were eroding the party's control. Since the 1930s, no one had personified the state's ideal Soviet worker better than the propaganda hero Alexei Stakhanov, the coal miner who reputedly produced 14 times the daily norm. But there were no Stakhanovites in the Soviet Union's biggest coalfields last week. Wildcat strikes by more than 300,000 workers paralyzed some 250 mines and factories in the Kuzbass and Donbass basins, resulting in a 6 million-ton loss of production. The walkout spread as far as the coalpits in Vorkuta...
Last week both sides agreed to submit to federal arbitration, though the union was not happy about its prospects. Appalachians are a stubborn breed. The strikers perversely seem to enjoy getting tossed into the slammer. Speaking for many last week, Norma Salyer, a miner's wife from Dante, boasted, "I'm ready. I've got my lipstick and my chewing gum right here to take with me to jail...
...suppose the answer all depends on whether one is a coal miner or a tenured economics professor with a lot of bonds in the portfolio...
...Stanford, students participating in ROTC are also sent to neighboring colleges, says Capt. Dennis W. Miner. He says that Navy ROTC students must spend at least an hour commuting to the University of California at Berkeley for instruction, while Army and Air Force ROTC units meet at the University of California at Santa Clara and San Jose State University, respectively...
Students at Cornell and Berkeley tried in the late 1960s and early 1970s to "boot" ROTC from campus, says Miner. But since the school is partly state-funded, the ROTC units were preserved...