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...Second Shift. Two months ago the Montecatini Co., which runs the mine, put a notice on its bulletin board. "Meticulous research," it read, "has established that the mine, in effect, is exhausted." Some 860 of Cabernardi's 1,000 miners would have to be laid off permanently. "Unjust," cried Communist Miner Gino Santorelli. "Capitalistic maneuvers! The company must carry out more intelligent research." Father Gino Tomaselli, Cabernardi's parish priest, issued a quiet demurrer. "I am convinced," he told his parishioners, "that Montecatini has carried out all possible research. Unfortunately, very little of the mineral is left...
Invalids Assay High. The word spread through the mining country, and so many visitors arrived at the Free Enterprise that they got in the way of the miners who were trying to find out whether its uranium veins were worth working. Wade V. Lewis, an experienced hard-rock miner and president of the company that owns the Free Enterprise, soon discovered that the visiting invalids assayed higher than anything in the mine: every carload was a pay-lode...
Labor took the hint. "Taft-Hartley will not manufacture steel," said onetime miner Phil Murray, paraphrasing the old mine union cry against the militia: "You can't dig coal with bayonets...
...entirely possible that Fine's decision to throw his delegates behind Ike Eisenhower or Bob Taft might decide who gets the nomination. Which side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure, the biggest Boy in the nation's Backroom...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). A new drama series produced by Worthington Miner. The Promise, with Robert Preston, Carol Bruce...