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...then employed me and the romance started," explained Michael Wilson, 29. In fact, Wilson's performance as a butler and chauffeur so impressed Rachel Fitler, 77, that the Pennsylvania heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller has accepted her former employee's proposal of marriage. The Welsh coal miner's son denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says, "but that isn't why I am marrying her." He does confess to borrowing $120 from Miss...
...opportunity for American coal miners to win twentieth century working conditions has arrived. The economic climate, which has traditionally been to the advantage of the management, has been drastically altered by the rise in fuel prices. Economic conditions unconducive to equitable contract settlements have existed almost continuously since the United Mine Workers' inception in 1892. In the early' nineties the union won modest gains for its members until technological advances in the industry and a decline in coal prices reduced the coal companies' need for manpower. This trend continued through the 1950's when the introduction of such fully automated...
...imminent elevation of the miner's position to that of workers in other industries comes during a period of change for the coal industry. American energy needs will require a doubling of coal production by 1980. The coal industry, which has undergone a longterm decline since the disappearance of the steam locomotive, will have to expand at an unprecedented rate to meet the nation's energy requirements. Electric generators that presently burn oil will have to switch to coal, and coal gasification plants will begin to replace diminishing natural gas reserves in the late 1970's. Despite the impending boom...
...Miner's rights are no longer a matter of managerial largesse; the union now has the economic power to force the companies to share their bloated coal profits with the miners. The longterm economic stagnation suffered by the coal industry has left the mining companies with selfish and antiquated goals. A departure from this mentality of greed will enable the coal companies to imitate the U.M.W.'s advancement from its own archaic past...
That seeming aloofness only augmented Hartmann's longstanding reputation for brusqueness and abrasiveness. After he became a Counsellor to the President, his father, Miner Hartmann, 85, sent him a vial of silicon carbide, which is used in grinding steel. "You grew up on it," explained an accompanying note from the elder Hartmann, a patent attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif., and former chemist who once directed research for the Carborundum Co. Even Wife Roberta concedes that Hartmann "does not have time to be as tactful as some people would wish." But he can also be garrulous and genial, particularly while...