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...coal-mining town seemed ripe for violence, it was Oceana, W. Va., a scraggly strip of forlorn-looking buildings lining a potholed main street and set between two brown mountains in the Appalachian foothills. Once a brawling town that sprouted no fewer than 37 bars during a mining and railroad boom in the early 1940s, Oceana (pop. 1,580) is one of the few communities in which the miners voted to accept the latest proposed contract and go back to work. Although they are members of U.M.W. District 17, one of the union's most militant, they voted contrary...
Utah St. at Nebraska, Georgetown at Virginia, Army at Rutgers, Va. Commonwealth at Detroit, Temple at Texas, Fairfield at Dayton, Illinois St. at Indiana St., South Carolina at North Carolina...
...INSIGHTS: Edmonds, a senior from Chesapeake, Va., inched toward third place on the all-time Dartmouth scoring list with his 24 points last night. The effort gave him 1277 career tallies, just 21 behind Larry Cubas '77. Dartmouth has two games remaining...
...saved enough to marry his high school sweetheart, Erma Ora James. Occupying two rooms of a house owned by his employers, the Byrds could not even afford an ice box; they hung half an orange crate outside a window. Four years later the couple moved to Crab Orchard, W. Va., where Byrd got a better paying job, as head butcher in a supermarket...
Byrd then bought his own grocery store in Sophia, W. Va., and started earning credits for a bachelor's degree at three different West Virginia colleges. In 1952 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. "There was no time for leisure, no time for anything but work, work," says Byrd...