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...senior captain and third baseman took his first RBI in the first inning as his grounder to second gave Harvard a quick lead off starting pitcher Kevin Gormley. Gormley gave up another run in the inning when he walked Ric LaCivita with the bases full...
...until the third, but could not capitalize for another run. Stoeckel had a disputed double in the inning as his shot hit the foul pole in right. The umpire immediately called it foul, but then seemed to change his mind, setting off a game-delaying argument between the umps, Gormley, Park and the irascible Eagle coach Eddy Pellagrini, who sounds somewhat like Yogi Berra when he's riled...
Pocket Pride. A strike vote, with all its divisive and debilitating effects, was precisely what National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley and other moderate union leaders had hoped to avoid. Instead, as the government's opposition mounted, so did the miners' mood to stick to their demands -even with the knowledge that to get their way a strike would have to be long. Coal stocks were still plentiful, meaning that for a strike to be effective it would have to last at least a month. The miners, already drained by twelve weeks of lost overtime, representing almost...
Three days later, angered mine leaders ordered the strike vote. It was a move that moderates like National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley had hoped to avoid. If, as expected, the necessary 55% of miners approve a strike, a walkout could come as early as Feb. 10. Said Arthur Scargill, 36, the Yorkshire Mineworkers leader: "I think the fight will go on and become one of the most bitter, bloody battles in the history of the trade union movement." The problem was that there remained serious doubts whether Heath had done everything possible to avoid the showdown. TIME...
Letter Bombs. Joe Gormley, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, said in an interview with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "The working man is becoming more and more aware that he is not getting his just share of the wealth he's producing. I think that's bound to happen in a country that has become better and better educated. Are we being so demanding...