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...Lincolns, Jim Sayre of Lawrenceburg, Ky., put it best: "A lot of people try to make him be what they want him to be." But the remarkable thing about Lincoln is that he is still remaking people himself. Take Jimmie Ray Rubin of Prosperity, W.Va. The 12th of 14 children, Rubin was born 73 years ago in a coal camp in nearby Lillybrook. He worked at a Laundromat and a newspaper to put himself through local colleges and eventually became a social worker. A veteran, Rubin also became commander of his American Legion post and a vets' advocate in Charleston...
...McCarr, Ky., a grocery and grill well known as a gathering spot of the strikers became a target for gunfire. A stick of dynamite tossed last month into a nonunion truck on Route 1056 near McCarr blew a three-foot hole in the vehicle but caused no injury. One explosion at the Kentucky Power Co. plant knocked out service to some 3,000 customers, including one coal company that had bought a unionized mine and reopened it as a nonunion one. Another blast blew up a power line leading to the Sprouse Creek Processing Co., the Massey subsidiary that...
...this week's cover, TIME correspondents talked to scores of expectant mothers in clinics, schools, teen centers, adoption agencies and welfare offices. Angela Helton, 15, the blue-eyed blond on our cover, attends the Teenage Parent Program of the Jefferson County, Ky., public schools and is now the mother of a son, Corey. Photographer Duane Michals, who took Helton's picture and those of many other pregnant teens, observes: "They came across as girls, not women. They seemed to be playing house. A lot of them did not understand the enormousness of having a child...
Just this Christmas past, Naomi Judd, a local girl made very good indeed, went back home to Ashland, Ky. She stopped off at the white bungalow where she had been raised, then moved on to Jane's beauty salon on 13th Street to "get a manicure, now that I have this diamond ring." At 39, Naomi Judd had no great familiarity with gems or with manicures--this was her first--and she was barely getting accustomed to celebrity. "I heard you were making it big as a singer, and I pictured you in a gingham dress," said a friend...
...story on Louisville as the No. 1 basketball team [SPORT, April 14] deserves consideration for the Hall of Fame of sportswriting. Your report caught the essence of the team, as well as the emotions surrounding basketball in Kentucky. Richard L. Coe Benton, Ky...