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...figure is "totally misleading." Ever since President Theodore Roosevelt broke up the Standard Oil monopoly, he said, the Rockefellers have exercised only marginal control over the oil industry. Family influence hardly compares with that of other groups. "The three major American insurance companies invest $156 million a week. The pension funds of the country invest $200 million a week. The Arabs in a week are accumulating more money than my family has after three generations of work...
...Tony") Boyle, a Montana local chief who came to the Washington headquarters in 1948, succeeded to the presidency in 1963. He tightened the dictatorship. But the union became a shambles, membership fell off, and corruption and terror tactics grew. Boyle and his cronies milked the union's pension and health funds for their own purposes. Bob Wingrove of Moundsville, W. Va., a Boyle opponent, recalls: "I was threatened many times. They used to call up my wife and ask, 'Are your kids in school? Are you sure?' Then when I'd come home, my wife would...
...companies told you that coal dust didn't hurt you." Ultimately, suffering from black-lung disease, he switched to another mine-one so wet that it brought on his arthritis. In 1970 he finally became too sick to work, but he was too young for a pension...
With consistent skill and forcefulness, but with a knack for compromising at the right moment, he has led the fight for bills for aid to education, consumer protection, liberal trade policies, pension reform and restriction of the President's warmaking powers. Legislative aides have voted him the second most effective Senator (after Democrat Henry M. Jackson) and the most intelligent. But in the aftermath of Watergate, his virtues have the appearance of vices to some outraged citizens. A cautious, scrupulous politician, he rarely speaks out on an issue until he has absorbed all the facts...
...newspapers, magazines and books. They have given the widows a transistor radio and a television set, and often bring their families up to visit on their days off. Last Christ mas, the 42 crewmen who had passed through during the year collected $110 to supplement the widows' combined pension of $50 a week. "Since I was a lit tle girl, I've always waved at trains," ex plains Mrs. McGillick. "That's how it started here - just waving...