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...bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time was a big event here." Now there are bigger and more ominous events in town. As has often been the case in the region's tumultuous history, coal is the crux...
Loretta Butterfield-Miner Sayre...
That same bitterness, powerfully expressed, lies at the heart of nearly every conversation John Gwaltney has recorded in his new book, whose title means "ordinary" in one American Black argot. One man, a coal miner, says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody...
Within 24 hours Bailey was on the phone to Jefferson. "Now you can help," said Bailey. The merger talks moved swiftly, in part because Bailey, 57, the burly son of an Indiana coal miner, and Jefferson, 59, a London-born intellectual with a Ph.D. in chemistry, knew each other well. They had worked together on joint gas-exploration ventures that Du Pont and Conoco had begun three years ago in Texas. Jefferson flew to Stamford four times in the next eight days. All along, he assured Bailey that Conoco's management would not be changed...
Mitchell Samples came out of Strange Creek, W. Va. The son of a coal miner, he is not the sort of man to question an order to report to his draft board...