Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the strike has not yet caused the devastating power shortages and mass layoffs that were once feared, those dangers cannot be delayed indefinitely. It is now a contest of wills, and experience has shown that the miners' staying power is not to be underestimated. Over the weekend the pressure of events brought union and management together again for further talks and some progress was made...
Once the papers are served, a task expected to be completed over the weekend, Taft-Hartley will be put to the test. Like Carter, Bell stressed that he thought the miners would obey the law and added that those who did should be protected by state and local authorities. When he was asked if his expectations might be overoptimistic in view of miner defiance in the past, he replied heatedly: "I'm really not interested as Attorney General in speculating about people not abiding by the law. They're patriotic people. I think it disparages the mine workers...
...Jerry Apodaca looks suspiciously like a healthy road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler in 1974. He is now trying to slim down from...
...NAACP and student groups began organizing this weekend's demonstrations two weeks ago when Vanderbilt announced its intention to host the tennis matches...
...intensive lobbying efforts of several minority leaders--many of whom spent the entire weekend making phone calls to convention delegates--combined with the impressive turnout of a far-from-reticent group of minority students, held sway...