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Last week the Justice Department pledged publicly to investigate conditions at the Harrison County jail, an 18-year-old facility that was filled to near peak capacity the night of the fire...
...unexpectedly large 2-to-1 sweep in a heavy turnout, unionized coal miners elected Richard L. (Rich) Trumka, 33, a lawyer and third-generation miner, to head the 220,000-member U.M.W. (peak membership in 1942: 595,000). That will make Trumka the youngest leader of a major labor union in the U.S. when he takes office next month. He defeated Incumbent Sam M. Church Jr., 46, who was appointed to the job in 1979, when Arnold Miller resigned because of his health...
...militant when the occasion calls for it." But like Fraser, he recognizes the necessity for making U.S. auto companies competitive with Japan. Neither the companies nor the union are the growth businesses they once were. The U.A.W's membership now stands at 1.2 million, down from its peak of 1.5 million...
...pretty nervous playing in the tournament--in was my first time ever really playing a game in the goal," Judge says with a grin. "It was snowing and cold, I could see pike's Peak from the goal. I remember practicing my slides in the snow...
...that is the peak on which Lord Olivier finds himself now, nearly 50 years after he posed for the artist. The first actor to be elevated to the peerage in the 600-year history of the House of Lords, he has so many honors that even he sometimes seems to choke on the incense. At 75 he has decided it is time to blow away some of the smoke and tell his own story. His autobiography, which he aptly titles Confessions of an Actor, Laurence Olivier, came out in Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next...