Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further negotiations at any level would not gain them a better contract, at least not one worth continuing the strike for. "It's kind of like playing poker at this point," said Cecil Roberts, 31, a vice president of the U.M. W.'s District 17 in West Virginia. "It's hard to win three hands...
...trip started off on a sour note when a snafu in the team's hotel reservations in Virginia resulted in shortage of beds and a poor night's sleep for many of the players. It was a tired and stiff contingent that headed for Wake Forest on Friday...
...informed that there were enough votes to ratify, but that all the Senators would be blamed by the opposition for casting the deciding vote to "give away the canal." Would Cannon help his fellow Senators out? He agreed to vote in favor. The leaders also sounded out West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, a wavering anti. Up for re-election this fall, Randolph was already being attacked on the issue by his opponent. Would he support the President? "Presidents come and go," said the man who was first elected to Congress in 1932. But he agreed to cast the deciding vote...
...thing the strike points up the most is the shakiness of the UMWA itself. Percentages of union-mined coal have decreased in Kentucky, perennially the leading producing state, every year since Miller took office in 1973, and 85 million man-days have been lost to wildcat strikes in West Virginia alone in the past two-and-a-half years. Clearly, the rank-and-file is dissatisfied with the leadership of Miller, who has seen the exodus of most of his staff over matters of union policy. There is no wistful feeling for the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle...
Paulovich tucked that experience under his belt when he decided to spend the summer at Marine Platoon Officer Candidates School in beautiful downtown Quantico, Virginia. Too short to be eligible for the Marines, Paulovich says he slept on a board the night before his physical and stood on his tip-toes at the weigh-in. "Sarge" (his nickname from day one of sophomore year when he returned to Cambridge sporting a Frank Freidel crew-cut) finished in the top 5 per cent of his Marine class and plans to take a commission following graduation from Harvard next year...