Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was little doubt last week that the vote from the coal fields would approve a strike. On a visit to Nottingham near legendary Sherwood Forest, TIME'S Skip Gates found emotions running high. "I'll tell you why they'll vote to strike," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, a miner's wife for 43 years. "They talk about mechanization-well, the foul air's still there, the dust's still there, the dank's still there. It used to be the miners put their pride in their pockets -they had to, didn...
...time. Sometimes I haven't sung it for a year or two. I may listen to a tape of the opera for 20 minutes or so to see what's left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last September she had to skip a night's sleep to do the taxing lead role in Strauss's Elektra in Berlin on 17 hours' notice. Those days would seem to be over for Klara Barlow...
...flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected out of the theater after this one--it's more like being at the mercy of an I.V. in reverse. Brando's performance is an extraordinarily personal statement, and the obscurity of Bertolucci's ideas is less important than the hot, close emotional impact of a life short...
...that the pay should make up for it. Base pay for journeymen miners now is $92 a week, about what a London secretary makes. They are asking for $112.50. "Forty thousand miners in Britain have black lung," Bill Ball, a miner for 33 years, told TIME'S Skip Gates. "We work on our knees, dig on our knees, and shovel on our knees for an entire shift in a space 2 ft. 9 in. tall. If we have to relieve ourselves, we do it right on the spot. It's dark when we go down into the pits...
Performances are tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Other skaters who will be performing are Sandra and Val Bezic, 1973 Canadian Pair Champions; Ann and Skip Millier, 1973 U.S. Dance Silver Medalists; Dorothy Hamill, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Silver Medalist; Lynn Nightingale, 1973 Canadian Ladies" Silver Medalist; Gale and Joel Fuhrman, 1973 U.S. Pair Silver Medalists; and Juli McKinstry, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Bronze Medalist...