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Conglomerate Miner. In 1959, the firm added "Mining" to its name in order to reflect newer operations that now account for 65% of its revenues. "Mining is our upward thrust," says Littlefield. The thrust started when Utah decided to adapt its earth-moving skills to open-pit mining projects. It has since become, in effect, a conglomerate miner...
...have collected 30,000 signatures, they are invited to the office of the foreign ministry to have tea and cake-and discuss government policy. At a meeting in the city of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovak intellectuals face an audience of workers and their families for a political debate. A miner shouts: "Wasn't there anything good in the past?" More timidly, but no less urgently, a bespectacled young girl rises to ask: "Why can't we see the film Doctor Zhivago...
Androcles (Gene Troobnick) and his wife Megaera (Jan Miner) enter and prove well cast indeed. Miss Miner's role is a short one, but she is properly attractive, ample, and shrewish. Curly headed Troobnick, imported by the Festival just for this role, fits to perfection Shaw's prescription of "a small, thin, ridiculous little man." He has no trouble convincing us of his great love of animals, and is wholly at home in Shaw's amusing baby-talk (such as "Did um get an awful thorn into um's tootsums wootsums?"). The extraction of the thorn from the Lion...
...long silences allow the language to flower in the mind and the subtle relationships of these numb, dumb characters to take form. Seldom in years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...
...County's 6,500 people exist beneath the poverty line, able to afford little more than a dime for each meal; federal food stamps account for half or more of the mountaineers' victuals. "Whenever you get another kid to feed," advised Cliston Johnson, 48, a partially disabled miner struggling to raise 15 children on $60 a month, "just add a little more water to the gravy...