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...large extent, Miller's victory was a repudiation of the corruption in the Boyle regime. After the Yablonski shooting, two U.M.W. officials, one of them a close Boyle associate, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, and Boyle was convicted by a federal jury of handing out $49,000 in union funds to political candidates, among them Hubert Humphrey. But they also mistrusted Boyle for other reasons. He had grown aloof and unreachable. He lived high and dressed fancy, and though he won fat wage increases for his men, he seemed oblivious to the occupational hazards of mining...
...right-hand side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...
After the game, Harrison, fighting off obvious disappointment, tried to be optimistic. "We made them commit a lot of turnovers and shot only 37 per cent from the field," he said
...pressing for extradition or "severe" local punishment of hijackers. Cuba has agreed to "severe" local punishment but has not spelled out its view on extradition; up to now, it has always rejected U.S. pleas for extradition. For its part, the U.S. has agreed to punish severely Cuban refugees who commit piracy at sea or in the air, and to help prevent exile groups from creating "incidents" with Cuba...
...group passed a resolution condemning the Department's decision to "fire" Bowles, demanded that the Department commit itself to teaching radical economics, and called a student-Faculty meeting of the Department for Monday afternoon to discuss the Bowles case...