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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doyen of cartoonists, Saul Steinberg is also to growing numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal...
Team members rank Ho as one of the most consistent players in college pong; his unpredictable spins have left many good players with more butterflies in their stomachs than Princeton has on their equipment labels...
Finally it was over. After 109 days, two abortive contract offers and untold expenditures of rancor, obstinacy and personal discomfort, rank-and-file members of the United Mine Workers voted late last week to end their strike. With union leaders promising that the 165,000 miners would return to their jobs on Monday and mine owners predicting that coal shipments would be back to normal within the week, the energy crisis that had been threatening-but never quite materializing-in a dozen Eastern Central states seemed to have passed...
...militant locals in western Pennsylvania and southern Illinois, it looked as if the miners were about to deal a thumping rejection to the pact, as they had done to a previous contract proposal three weeks earlier. But when most of the ballots were tallied, they showed that the rank and file had approved the contract, 58,380 to 44,210. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller reacted with a smile and a one-word comment to Secretary-Treasurer Willard Esselstyn: "Good." To reporters, Miller acknowledged that the contract did not give the miners everything they wanted. But he called it "better than...
...know them. The company negotiators were mostly bureaucrats." In any event, after the miners rejected the pact, the B.C.O.A's bargaining was turned over to Nicholas Camicia, 61, chairman of the Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia: "I've been in the mines all my life, so I understand the people. I'm one of them...