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...squat, 61-year-old man who has spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...obligatory plug-it and-run tour. Such promotional chores are part of his job, part of what he does all day now. But he would rather stay in Chicago, and he plans to cut the trip short, exercising a freedom of choice that the waitress, barber, and strip miner in his book (all pseudononymous characters) would probably envy...
Insidious Energy. Heath has centered his campaign on the miners' refusal to work until they get pay hikes of up to 30%, charging their demands are inflationary. "Inflation," declared Heath, "is the most insidious enemy a nation can face." He depicts the miners -and the Labor Party with which they are most closely allied-as controlled by militant leftists. A typical Tory television spot shows pound notes being flung at a miner's helmet. Then Heath appears, saying he has no quarrel with the unions, only with "extremists" who seek to bring down the elected government...
...doubt last week that the vote from the coal fields would approve a strike. On a visit to Nottingham near legendary Sherwood Forest, TIME'S Skip Gates found emotions running high. "I'll tell you why they'll vote to strike," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, a miner's wife for 43 years. "They talk about mechanization-well, the foul air's still there, the dust's still there, the dank's still there. It used to be the miners put their pride in their pockets -they had to, didn't they...
...battle in the Nottingham coal fields was being waged over miners for whom the strike will be a huge financial loss-"those who live from Friday to Friday, up to their bloody eyeballs in debt," as Joe Whelan puts it. Even the oldest red brick row house in Nottingham has a television antenna on its roof, wall-to-wall carpeting, and an automobile parked out front, all bought on "hire purchase," as the British call the installment plan. "With mortgages, with hire purchase, we can't afford a strike," says Marge Reid, whose husband has been a miner...