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...cagers will try and regain the plateau of excellence they displayed during their last two games when they host Columbia and Cornell this Saturday. Both squads have previously dispatched the Crimson, a team that was just coming off of a long exam layoff...
...years, five novels and two short-story collections old. She is, by any reasonable standard, a successful writer. Critics generally admire her work. The Keepers of the House won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Her sales chart is not dramatically craggy, but rises to a respectable plateau of long-term gains. Moreover, Grau has managed her career while raising four children as the wife of a philosophy professor in suburban New Orleans...
...profound consequence is that the number of people looking for work is leaping faster than the economy can provide jobs, and unemployment sticks on a high plateau (7.8% in September). Because women and teen-agers are often among the last hired and first fired-and the least trained-their presence in the job market swells the official unemployment rate. And that much headlined statistic tends to exaggerate the image of dire suffering caused by unemployment. In September only 2.5% of those in the labor force had been out of work for 15 weeks or more and .6% for a year...
Just a year before L.B.J.'s advent in Appalachia, Harry Caudill, a lawyer from the University of Kentucky who is descended from the earliest settlers of the Cumberland Plateau, wrote a small classic, Night Comes to the Cumberlands. The book detailed with angry eloquence the paradox of a people who had grown "shockingly poor" in a land stuffed with "valuable natural resources." In The Watches of the Night, an equally indignant, equally effective broadside, Caudill updates that gloomy report. Appalachia in the '60s, he suggests, was L.B.J.'s and America's domestic Viet Nam: a confrontation...
Kentucky's Cumberland Plateau is a region a little larger than Holland, and potentially a lot richer. Forty percent of the world's coal is in the U.S., and of that, 35 billion tons of the highest quality lie buried in the Cumberland ridges. In addition, there is what Caudill calls "the temperate zone's most varied forest" as well as many arable valleys blessed with abundant rainfall...