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...entrances and exits and confined her delivery to flat recitation. Also making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49, seemed to be posing for a camera rather than playing to an audience. Of the stage veterans, Dorothy Loudon and Mary Louise Wilson are tartly expert comediennes, and Jan Miner is wonderfully hilarious as a countess addicted to husbands (five) and alcohol (90-proof...
...calcified in its complacent enjoyment of power and increasingly remote from the workers in the factories and mines. No union was more open to that accusation than the United Mine Workers under the autocratic tenures of John L. Lewis and W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. Now, a rank-and-file coal miner named Arnold Miller is giving this thesis a major challenge by providing the U.M.W. with the kind of leadership that labor's critics have found wanting...
...move guaranteed to make John L. Lewis spin in his grave, Miller announced that henceforth all U.M.W. local districts would elect their own officers instead of accepting bosses hand-picked by Washington headquarters. He set about spending two days a week touring the coal fields, listening to miners' comments and complaints. Last week he visited the hamlet of Lake, W. Va., to call on Willie Ray Blankenship, a feeble 72-year-old former mine worker. Blankenship had applied for a union pension four years ago when he retired, but the Boyle regime denied it on a technicality. Miller handed...
...After Aleksei Stakhanov. a coal miner who became an early hero of Soviet labor by greatly overfulfilling his production quota...
...addition to praying for peace on earth, Pope Paul VI carried his holiday message to those beneath the earth. He donned a miner's white helmet, climbed aboard a Jeep, and chugged off into the depths of a railway tunnel being constructed underneath Monte Soratte, 25 miles north of Rome. After saying a midnight Mass, the Pope inspected a huge tunnel-drilling machine and then embraced a foreman who read a welcoming speech. The Pope's venture was not without its critics, however. "A publicity gesture," grumbled Rome's main conservative newspaper, Il Tempo. "To show...