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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adkins, like many of the other miners, feeds his four children with the help of federal food stamps ($248 a month). Before the strike, his wife Louise spent $375 a month on groceries. The family is still well fed, but she closely follows the instructions in her favorite cookbook, Mountain Measures. "If the recipe says it serves six, it's exactly six," she says. "It don't lie. No more scraps for the dog." One of her favorite dishes is "sawmill gravy," known to other Cabin Creek families as "dough sop": bacon grease, flour, water, evaporated milk, salt...
...Rhodesian soldier, a typical day begins with dawn patrols that involve setting out from an overnight jungle camp for a tramp in slept-in fatigues across deep grass, mountain trails and through village kraals. In the bush, visibility is often limited to a few yards: one stick recently ambushed a guerrilla group that had been sleeping less than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have...
...influence, especially in Appalachia; for many people, the school and church are still the only real places of socializing." In her course this spring, she will show her own films of women's participation in Pentecostal groups, which are part of Appalachia's fundamentalist religious revivals, and in the mountain "serpent-handling" cults. She will also screen "Harlan Country USA," Barbara Kopple's movie on the Kentucky coal strike in which the miners' wives played a large role...
Coors, the fabled company in Golden, Colo., that was on a Rocky Mountain high for years also declined in 1977, from 13.7 million bbls. to 12.8 million. Part of the drop was due to a bitter strike that led to a customer boycott; it has been particularly damaging in California, where Coors has lost its leadership to Anheuser-Busch. Coors also suffered under the new competition because it long had paid little attention to marketing, figuring that its popular product would just "walk off the shelves." As a regional brewer that sells almost all its beer to 16 states concentrated...
...that end, the agency will soon build similar pilot projects on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and Block Island, R.I., and plans a 2,000-kw. model for Boone. N.C. The Federal Government wind-energy budget has ballooned to $38 million (a few privately owned turbines already serve remote mountain and island locations). Government experts estimate optimistically that wind power will furnish at least 3% of the nation's electricity by the year...