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Tugged by his dogs, Chapman tried to dodge the blackberry bushes and oak and hickory trees revealed in the pale light of the lamp on his miner's helmet. The desperate Ray headed uphill, past a gravel road used for hauling coal. Chapman could hear him crashing through the bush. For a man who had been on the run for more than two days, Ray showed remarkable endurance. All the hours he had spent in the prison yard playing volleyball to develop his legs and lungs were paying off-for a while...
Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
STANDING OUTSIDE A THATCHED HUT in the hills, a family of Mapucho Indians describe the way their lives havemimproved under the Allende regime. One man begins to sob, and a woman standing near him explains, "It's a very emotional thing for us." A coal miner says, "Before it was terrible because the 'momios' [the rich, the big landowners] ran things and threw us out when they were angry. Now we are in good shape. We work for ourselves and so for Chile." Their words are not forced--they come from the heart...
...dreadful repercussions" if he was arrested, Paisley-dressed in black clerical garb -led pickets outside the gates of Stormont, the seat of government in the province. Nearby, at the gloomy, old Stormont Castle, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason, a tough ex-miner, calmly directed security operations. The 14,500 British troops in Northern Ireland were placed on alert, and 2,000 more were flown in, but order was maintained by the Ulster police force. The Secretary kept a low profile, although he did send Paisley a letter that ended angrily: "You are playing...
...grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville displays primary-hued portraits of archetypal Wisconsinites: a blue-faced farmer, a crimson-haired girl, a gray-and-white-faced iron miner, a green-visaged businessman chomping a blue cigar...