Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperation, a consortium of West German banks brought in as boss of Henschel a most atypical German industrialist-short, swarthy Fritz-Aurel Goergen, 53-null makes no pretense to gentility or polish. In sports, his tastes run to soccer and pigeon raising, his favorite drink is the traditional German miner's tipple of "steel and iron" (schnapps mixed with beer), and an unwelcome visitor to his office is apt to be presented with a calling card bearing a highly ribald piece of advice. Fritz-Aurel Goergen proudly de scribes himself as a "little...
...Coal Miner Arnold Smith, 46, has been so completely freed of the palsy that he has taken up a new career as a physiotherapy aide at the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Kentucky. Remarkably erect Joan Harris, now 15, of Larchmont, N.Y., is doing well in school. The boy, 13, is as straight as a spruce, and supple as a birch...
...desolate, mountainous region, where the rivers run black over slate and shale. Its miners are a tough, hardy folk, for the equipment they use is outmoded, the coal they dig is of low quality and difficult to extract; a man's average output is only six-tenths of a ton in an eight-hour day, perhaps one-twentieth of a U.S. coal miner's production...
...Drifter. Carpenter's father, a chemist, and his mother separated soon after Scott was born. Stricken with tuberculosis, his mother went into a Colorado sanitarium, and Carpenter was raised in Boulder, Colo., by his maternal grandfather, Editor Victor Noxon of the Boulder County Miner and Farmer. (The Noxon house stood on Aurora Street, a name that Carpenter later was to borrow for his space capsule.) The old man gave the boy his first lesson in self-reliance: how to live by hunting and fishing in the mountains of Colorado...
...Harvard sophomores are among 106 students admitted to the 1962-63 junior year in France, the foreign student program administered by Sweet Briar College since 1948. The six are: Robert D. Lamberton, Joseph R. Scott Jr., Nathaniel B. Smith, Miner H. Warner, James D. Wilkinson, and C. Loring Woodman...