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When the White House nominated Utah Geologist Tom Lyon to be director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, trouble rumbled right behind the announcement. United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis opposed Lyon because he had no coal-mining experience, and 88% of U.S. miners are coal miners. But no...
Deep, in India's Punjab, near the Himalayan foothills, a burning sun beat down last week on 30,000 sweating laborers. Women in bright saris poured concrete into wooden forms; long lines of men gouged out foundations, spread smoking tar on road surfaces with hands swathed in jute sacking...
Cinemactor Lionel Barrymore, a bright-eyed 75, with his first novel (Mr. Cantonwine) newly done, acknowledged that he was preparing a few sample columns for a newspaper syndicate. "There's nothing I'd like better than to be able to sound off about my favorite ideas," he rumbled...
All day long, over the sun-baked Suez base that sprawls for 90 miles along the canal banks, British spotter planes droned last week, alert for Egyptian concentrations. Big, Sunderland flying boats rumbled in from Malta with 600 commandos to beef up the 80,000 British troops already crammed into...
A few family wrangles kept things warm in the Coliseum, but one issue found the assembled Southerners practically unanimous: they clapped, rumbled their approval and cried an occasional "Amen" as this year's President James D. Grey of New Orleans made a metaphorical speech ridiculing the idea that the...