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With eleven children to support, conscientious Coal Miner Willie Farrel, who neither smokes nor drinks, prefers to work all his holidays. In his twelve years at Scotland's Mauchline Colliery near Glasgow, Farrell has been off only twice, once to stay at home when his wife was having a baby, another time to go to the hospital to have his ulcers treated. By working on all of his regular days off and on his two-week paid vacation each year, Willie got double pay for a lot of his time...
...with Bounce. Khrushchev is a man with machine gunner's eyes and thin, whitening hair that still shows streaks of blond. A Great Russian by race, he has the shoulders of a Stakhanovite (he was once a coal miner), the broad buttocks and high cheekbones of a Slav peasant. Bureaucratic life has covered Khrushchev's frame with an overlay of fat, but one of the few Western diplomats who have met him recently reported last week that he is "rosy and energetic: a man with a lot of bounce...
Feet on the Screen. All this was pure windfall for the Democratic candidate, former State Senator Robert Baumle Meyner (pronounced miner), 45, an eager small-town (Phillipsburg, pop. 19,000) lawyer whose key supporter is Jersey City's current Democratic boss, Mayor John V. Kenny. The Democratic record stems from ex-Boss Frank Hague and is deeply scarred by bossism and unbridled corruption-but this time the Democrats have been successful in wrapping themselves in the mantle of reform. Hague's nephew, former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner...
...British coal miner...
...TIME'S [Aug. 17] "Crisis in Coal": as an old, 50-year retired coal miner . . . I want to comment ... In preparation for World War II we in the bituminous coal industry-which was and is the greatest source of power to win the war, did not, as did the steel, aluminum, rubber industries, etc., go to the Federal Government to develop and build their plants . . . No, we took our own capital or by private borrowing developed our properties so that we supplied all the coal, with no shortages, that our country needed . . . But the main and vital thing your...