Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Your article, "The High Price of Peace in Detroit" [Nov. 23], makes me want to say "Congratulations, U.A.W. and Mr. Woodcock, for pricing yourselves right out of the market." Certainly this and labor's demands in general rival the ecological mess as a classic example of man's shortsightedness...
...Stowe says in your article "Stowing the Manly Oar" [Nov. 23], the world is not what it was when he was an undergraduate. There are abuses throughout our society, and the students are bellwethers. If one listens to them, one realizes how miserable they are and how desperately they want to be a part of an America that lives up to the principles upon which it was founded. Columbia students are too intelligent to accept a haircut and a hard hat as the salvation of our country...
...federally funded buildings, and while I do not indulge in vulgarity, I called him a liar. It's an absolute lie. Of course, most students think we shouldn't go on unless they invite us. They can have as many demonstrations, sit-ins, lay-ins as they want, and we will never look into it. I think students have a perfect right to dissent and to express their views through proper channels. But they ought not to resolve their differences by throwing bricks and bottles on the streets...
...just bought two plots at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Even if they don't find my husband, I'll have a marker there for him, and that'll be our place." Women whose husbands were closest to the blast fear that their bodies were cremated and want the agreement's assurance that the shafts will be "inviolate ... in perpetuity...
There are other widows who have bought cemetery plots, who want their husbands' bodies recovered, but, faced with no foreseeable resolution of their fealty to the dead, still signed the agreement. What will happen is as uncertain as the slow, dangerous job of digging into the pits where the men were entombed. Government and union officials have balked at the agreement. The Bureau of Mines wants to continue the investigation into the causes of the disaster. More than that, a local union official insists, the fragile emotional balance that miners must strike with fear each day they enter...