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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yablonski's stronghold along the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border, where crude, hand-lettered Yablonski campaign posters still dot lampposts and telephone poles, his supporters suspected that the union was responsible for the murders. During four days of wildcat strikes, up to 19,000 miners angrily walked off their jobs, closing down a number of mines. Yablonski's two surviving sons, Kenneth and Chip, both lawyers, issued a statement saying: "There is no doubt that these horrible misdeeds are an outgrowth of our father's most recent bid to win election...
...commission without any apparent purpose: "I need jobs for slobs." He managed to find a place for the husband of a favorite secretary on the Subversive Activities Control Board, a commission that is supposed to hunt down Communist organizations but has failed to locate one in more than four years...
...Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly 16-page paper with a circulation of 700,000, including 3,000 subscribers from as far away as South Africa and Australia...
...animistic people of Madagascar, death is considered just another step in life. The dead are buried, but they are regarded as active family members, and their souls are believed to reside in the northeast corners of the houses in which they lived. Every four or five years, depending on the forecast of the family astrologer, their descendants dig up their bones, dress them in shiny new funeral silks and parade them around town in taxis. They introduce the dead to new members of the family, tell them the latest jokes, hire bands to play them the current hit songs...
...Bonsack, merely as an oversized one-man tub. "I'm short and fat," explains Bonsack, "and I wanted a raised step on one end for soaping, and then to be able to turn around and stretch out from the other end for soaking. But then, I thought, the four-foot width was just right; wouldn't it be fun if two people used it together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already taken the Sagittarius home. They had no difficulty matching the decor of their bathrooms; the tubs come in a choice...