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Commissar. Born the son of a miner in the tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
...quiet, lazy Sunday morning last October, Jack Bamford, a boy apprentice miner, was awakened in the Bamford cottage in Newthorpe, near Nottingham, by the acrid smell of wood smoke. He roused his dad, who is a miner. They ran downstairs into a roaring fire at the foot of the stairway, and together rescued Mrs. Bamford and three of the children. Then they remembered Brian, 6, and Roy, 4. They were trapped in Jack's back bedroom; and the second floor was in flames. Father wrapped himself in a blanket and tried to rush upstairs, but fell back before...
...apprentice coal miner was the 16sth - and youngest - recipient of the silver medal, Britain's highest honor for noncombatant bravery. "I think it's a bit daft," said Jack. "I didn't really do owt [anything...
Then why do foundations make the mistakes they do? Said Secretary Moe: "Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was . . . He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances. You act on the best evidence you've got, but still you have got to take chances.' We who operate really on the frontiers of knowledge and understanding have to recognize that we are not the Almighty. And not being the Almighty, we can't find out everything ... If [applicants for a grant] are members...
Died. William Green, 82, Ohio-born coal miner, longtime (since 1924) president of the American Federation of Labor; of a heart attack; in Coshocton, Ohio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...