Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later-Life Influence. At Columbia, Historian Dwight Miner, 61, carries with zest and buoyancy the weighty responsibility of teaching that college's long-famed course in contemporary civilization, following the tracks of such illustrious predecessors as Rexford Guy Tugwell and Jacques Barzun. Creeping, leaping, lolling his head like a cow, he tries to span everything from the Magna Carta to World...
When he hits Darwin and mutations, Miner yanks at his front teeth. "The saber-toothed tiger," he says, "was noted for its eyeteeth. They grew and grew, giving the tiger a tremendous bite. They could just WHANG on that prey." He claps his hands together. "But this mutation kept recurring and the eyeteeth grew longer and longer, till they came down like this"?he drapes his forefingers down over his lower jaw?"and then what happened? They couldn't get a bite. So now there are no more saber-toothed tigers...
Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, a former miner, long a victim of rheumatic heart disease, had been unable to do any work for 21 years. Dr. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28) and the cardiologists on his team soon found that DeRudder had a badly damaged and calcified mitral valve, through which blood passes from the left auricle to the left ventricle. This valve had worked so poorly for so long that the overtaxed left ventricle had become enlarged, flabby and inefficient. It was possible that Patient DeRudder could survive with nothing more than an artificial valve, but the surgeons could...
...Miners, it had been a long haul. Their impressive 27-1 season record had virtually demanded at least the No. 3 rank in the nation. Unconvinced outsiders claimed that the team had not really faced tough competition. Kentucky was certainly that. Coached by Old Master Adolph Rupp, the Wildcats were an impeccable, diligently honed unit. But the Miners, as one opposing coach observed, "don't let you play the way you want to." And they didn't let Kentucky. From the opening jump-off between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance...
...Wildcats were completely out-maneuvered by the Texas Western team. Miner Coach Don Haskins put in 5-6 Willie Worsley in place of 6-3 Neville Shed just before game time, and the little man chipped in with 12 points...