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When the White House nominated Utah Geologist Tom Lyon to be director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, trouble rumbled right behind the announcement. United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis opposed Lyon because he had no coal-mining experience, and 88% of U.S. miners are coal miners. But no one was prepared for the explosion that blew the nomination to bits last week...
...Lyon lit the fuse himself. A craggy-faced individualist, he sat down before the Senate Interior Committee determined to tell the unvarnished truth. He had worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and its subsidiaries for 34 years. The Truman Administration had brought him to Washington in late 1951 as minerals chief in the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. Lyon added that he draws a $5,000-a-year pension from Anaconda and that the pension is revocable at the will of the company. At that bit of information, Senators' eyebrows shot up. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry...
...Then Lyon volunteered some damaging opinion to top the damaging facts. He was solidly against the new federal mine safety regulations passed by Congress last year-a law he would have to administer. He believed that the bureau, which has 270 mine inspectors, would need several thousand to enforce the new law. The law was "just that much more federal control" of the mining industry; individual states should have chief responsibility for mine safety; the Bureau of Mines "was never meant to be a policeman." Besides, said Lyon, 99% of mine accidents are caused by miners themselves. Mining companies take...
...Doesn't a human life come before a material matter?" asked Senator Jackson. Replied Lyon: "You'd think so, but life appears to be becoming very cheap on the globe...
Among Martine's previewers was a church group who reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery...