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...calls his former ally "a disaster as president." For evidence, they point to his inability to control disorderly meetings of the U.M.W.'s 21-member international board, Miller's habit of spending long weekends in Charleston, W. Va., near his home, and his failure to check the rash of wildcat coal strikes that have plagued the industry during his tenure, including last summer's prolonged walkout that idled more than 90,000 miners...
Times editors insist that they did not set out to do an exposé of the Long Beach paper. They dispatched Reporters George Reasons and Mike Goodman to the city six months ago, they claim, solely to investigate a rash of municipal scandals and fiscal problems. "The situation we found was a surprise to all of us," says Times Editor William Thomas. "But [the paper] was a natural focus, so we wrote it that way. I can say that I have never seen a story quite like this...
...Radcliffe waltz was a contest hardly in doubt after the opening minutes. After a rash of Radcliffe fouls at the outset, the team grabbed a 8-4 lead...
...Mexico City, Rosalynn displayed the even temperament and stamina she had shown on the campaign trail. Nothing seemed to throw her off stride, not even the 7,349-ft. altitude of Mexico City, which does in many tourists, nor a rash of antigovernment bombings that erupted just before her arrival. During LÓpez Portillo's inaugural speech in the National Auditorium, Rosalynn applauded as the new President appealed for unity and austerity to solve Mexico's deepening economic problems...
Unlike other viral diseases transmitted by insects, birds or mammals, smallpox is spread by man himself. Its sole "vector" is a person actually afflicted with the disease; he is contagious only during the four weeks between the appearance of the disfiguring rash and the scaling off of the ugly scabs that form on its pustules. If all those who come in contact with the victim during that period have already been vaccinated or are immune from previous infection, the human transmission chain is broken and the disease is not passed...