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John P. Corr, columnist and feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Thomas J. Dolan, investigative reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times; Sheryl A. Fitzgerald, features editor, The Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va.; David V. Hawpe, associate editor and editorial writer, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky...
Woody Stephens started amassing his racing wisdom when he was 13. The son of a tobacco farmer in the hamlet of Midway, Ky., Stephens broke his first yearling in 1927, and a year later dropped out of high school to sign a five-year contract as an apprentice jockey. When he grew too big to ride, Stephens turned to training, scoring his first victory in 1940. His total involvement with all facets of racing includes even horse matchmaking-it was Stephens' idea to mate Bold Bidder and Queen Sucree in 1970. The product was named Cannonade. To this...
...link was strengthened in 1973 when researchers from Bonn University found evidence of liver damage in 19 out of 20 PVC workers at a single plant. The bombshell really burst early this year when B.F. Goodrich Co. reported that three men who worked with VC in its Louisville, Ky., plastics plant had died of angiosarcoma of the liver since 1971. Since then doctors have identified nine more cases of the cancer in the U.S., one in Great Britain and another in Norway...
...tactic seems not only imaginative but a bit desperate. For nine months, the union has struck the Brookside, Ky., mine of Eastover Mining Co., which is owned by Duke Power, over health and safety standards. Success is crucial to U.M.W. efforts to sign up the mines of Harlan County-still known as "Bloody Harlan" because of the tear gas bombings, shootings and beatings during a U.M.W. organizing drive in the 1930s. The U.M.W. is convinced that Eastover will never settle unless the parent Duke Power insists that it do so. And Eastover needs to hold out only three more months...
...bookkeeper's son from Glasgow, Ky., Krock attended Princeton briefly, then began his journalistic career on the Louisville Herald and became Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times in 1910. He went to Paris with Woodrow Wilson, won a citation from the French government for his coverage of the Versailles peace conference, and returned to become the editorial manager at age 29 of both the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal. In 1927 he joined the New York Times, and five years later became that newspaper's Washington bureau chief...