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Some who cannot find jobs locally are taking Reagan's advice and "voting with their feet" by moving to other states. When General Motors closed its plant in St. Louis last July and shifted to a more modern factory in Bowling Green, Ky., about 800 of its 900 hourly workers followed from St. Louis...
...chain of 35 restaurants, centered in Louisville, Ky. Each franchise is individually owned, and a spokesman at the chain's headquarters said yesterday that Cambridge is the only place where Chi-Chi's workers are trying to unionize...
...Alvaton, Ky...
Four decades ago, they worked their magic in the Negro Baseball Leagues, playing their own game while white men ruled the sport. Tonight they were back together again in Ashland, Ky. (pop. 29,000), for the third annual reunion of the Negro Leagues. It was the first time that some of them had seen one another since the old days, and they had a lot of catching up to do. The splendid second baseman Piper Davis fired a ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when...
...idea for a reunion was born three years ago when the town of Greenup, Ky., a few miles down the Ohio River, discovered that one of its native sons, Clinton Thomas, was known as "the Black Joe DiMaggio" when he played for the New York Black Yankees in the '30s. Greenup feted Thomas with an 80th birthday party and invited a group of old-timers from the black leagues. Twelve of them came, and before the party was over, they vowed to do it again the next year. With help from organizers in Ashland, the event doubled in size...