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...Coal, the biggest member of B.C.O.A., Amax Coal Co. and Island Creek Coal Co. might break away from the other operators and negotiate individual contracts with the U.M.W. That could set a precedent for regional settlements, and the 2,500 smaller coal companies would fall into line. But this sort of balkanization could take the power of decision away from both the U.M.W. and the B.C.O.A. and lead to a kind of splintering that neither would find tolerable. The threat of such a development helped bring the two sides back to the bargaining table and gave the talks a greater...
...request was that we should have a cessation of hostilities on the. existing lines. "I am not prepared," I said, "to have a repeat of the 1948 'truce' which was behind our loss of the war." "We'll come in here and guarantee nothing of the sort would happen," he said. "With Israel," I replied, "you can't guarantee anything! Besides, where are the tanks I asked for on the second...
...said, "let us go over what you're saying. The equipment you have supplied us with is not up to date; you made us lag behind Israel in armament by a long way, and still I proceeded to fight, and-here we are. I am winning! What sort of friendly relations would you call this? Isn't it high time we buried the past and opened a new chapter...
...VACATION approaches once again, the prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible...
...journey, when I arrived at Harvard Square. It is a place usually busy with vicious traffic to the left of you, to the right of you, in front of you and behind you--but today it was joyously empty except for the same sort of grinning happy folks and delirious children. Suddenly the landscape had been humanized...