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...than anyone to Jon a Crimson uniform. Bingham, however, did not have quite the same luck in continuing his career, as a back injury discouraged any learn from drafting him. Determined to make it, he gave up a high paying job at Union Carbide and went to a ton of trial campus," a friend says, before he finally got picked up last year by the Pioneer League Idaho Falls Angel affiliate. The first baseman batted. 333 and knocked in 48 runs in his first season and is now with the Midwest League Danville Suns. Bingham started in the opener against...
...uninitiated, full-scale coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...Knoxville's shindig is by no means minor league. For a daily admission charge of $9.95, patrons will get the run of exhibits from 23 foreign countries. China has lent an ad hoc museum of treasures, including 20 two-ton bricks from the Great Wall. Among the other 1,000 artifacts coming from the People's Republic: pearl-encrusted tapestries, ancient porcelain and a pair of life-size 3rd century B.C. terra cotta warriors. The Egyptians, too, plan to ship some splendid pieces, including the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II. Japan's installation, with perhaps a touch...
...full-page newspaper advertisement from Tenneco Inc. brimmed with pride. As its contribution to the Reagan Administration's arms buildup, the company announced that it had delivered not one but two potent new neclear-powered warships to the U.S. Navy in a single day: the 93,000-ton aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and the 6,900-ton attack submarine Atlanta. Proclaimed the ads' headline: MISTER PRESIDENT, WE HAVE BEGUN...
...arms. The bishops' rationale: the weapons will strengthen repressive elements in the security forces and, says Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., drive more and more people "into the hills and into the hands of the guerrillas." Says Auxiliary Bishop John E. McCarthy of Galveston-Hous-ton: "Those 22-year-old rebels are not risking their lives for the good of the Soviet Union or Cuba. They are risking their lives because they have seen their fathers murdered, their sisters raped and their homes burned." His fear, says McCarthy, is that "the intensity and blindness of American...