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...watched my grandfather live a life struggling for each breath he took because of black-lung disease. I remember him covered with the black coal dust of the mines. How many coal users think of the miner as they load their furnaces with this precious fuel? I am with the miners...
...serene Cheryl Tiegs (March 6) brought a surge of emotion-charged letters-555 at last count. Most of our critics were angry and articulate women who found the story sexist. Predictably, the most enthusiastic supporters were males who felt that the cover was, as one put it, "a breath of fresh...
...recalls. "The teeth of the Depression. I had studied art and science, and I was attracted by publishing. The only job available in that profession was shipping clerk for Crown. I was glad to take it." Six years later Cirker and his young wife, Blanche, took a deep breath and plunged their meager savings-a few hundred dollars-into a publishing house. "We didn't choose Dover for romantic English connotations," says Blanche, the company's executive vice president. "We named our business after the building we lived...
Show me that Shaun Cassidy has some real talent or sex appeal and then I'll ooh and ahh like all the rest. Until then, I won't hold my breath...
...landing, Siberia loomed as a forbidding vista of seismic scars and snowcapped mountain ranges. Our destination: a tiny pioneer village aptly named Alonka (wasteland). The temperature: 50° F. below zero. On even chillier days, the cold at Alonka becomes literally audible: the moisture of exhaled breath freezes instantly, and the colliding crystals make a rustling sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun eight months...