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Last week the L.A.O.O.C. canceled the electronic delivery of the flame, fearing Greek lack of cooperation. Instead, officials leased an Air Force jet to pick up the flame Monday and take it to New York City in six miner's lamps...
...mail delivery. Yellowknifers voted a resounding 'No,' even though winter temperatures can plunge to 40 below zero, if only because during the long dark months many of them get to meet each other only when they pick up their mail at the post office. And then, a miner, stopped outside the post office by an inquiring photographer from the Yellowknifer and asked what social facility, presently missing, would most enhance the quality of life in town, promptly replied: 'A whorehouse...
...looks for people, sometimes whole communities, who have offbeat pursuits or experiences, and he takes them seriously. He seeks "stories that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks...
...last survivor of the violent 19th century feud with the West Virginia Hatfields that took 30 to 50 lives over 30 years; of congestive heart failure; in Liberty, Ky. Although bloodshed between the rural Appalachian clans ceased long ago, it was not until May 1976 that former Coal Miner McCoy and the late Willis Hatfield, then 88, shook hands to end America's most famous misunderstanding, the origins of which are unknown. Last week, to the strains of Amazing Grace, the McCoys gathered to pay their last respects-at the Hatfield Funeral Chapel in Toler...
...they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...