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...against the new settlement President Arnold R. Miller negotiated for them. But, most significantly, more than 40,000 miners didn't vote at all. The vote was the first rank-and-file referendum on a contract in UMW history, fulfilling Miller's 1972 election pledge to open up the hitherto autocratic ratification process...
Seventy-eight of those days have passed, meaning that a week from next Tuesday, Sen. James F. Buckley's (R-N.Y.) fabled-and-faulted "files bill" will break the seals on those inscrutable, hitherto-unpenetrated mysteries--Harvard students' confidential folders...
Five Down. General Anaya's impassioned denunciation was primarily aimed at left-wing subversives. But in fact, most of last week's killings were carried out by a hitherto obscure right-wing group, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance. The A.A.A. recently surfaced as a major terrorist force. Three weeks ago, a letter was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers containing a list of 17 prominent Argentines. Beside five of the names were tiny crosses; those five had already been executed. The remaining twelve, including former President Héctor Campora, ex-Deputy Leonardo Bettanin and former Education Minister Jorge...
...Johnson investigated, fearing that ear piercing - like tattooing and mainlining heroin - might spread hepatitis. The jeweler said that he soaked his needles in 70% alcohol, but Johnson pointed out that this treatment does not kill the stubborn hepatitis virus. The team tracked down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers but physicians who use only alcohol or benzal-konium solution for "cold sterilization" may be guilty of spreading the disease. Johnson insists that ear-piercing equip ment must be boiled for 20 minutes...
...vast parade") and a sharp eye for cracks in fine facades ("It seems that Mr. Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington and Prince Charles in which the master of Mount Vernon, although not hostile, remained uncharmed and uncommitted. Samuel Johnson is found to have made an otherwise unnoticed trip to the New World, and Patrick Henry and Tom Paine are implicated in a plot to assassinate...