No Fear on Earth: Ex-Miner Speaks After Blacksville Fire
In Blacksville West Virginia a fire trapped nine miners at Consolidation Coal Co. Blacksville No 1 mine as rescuers worked Saturday night and into Sunday. An ex miner known only as Mr Murray described the terror of a mine fire and said he swore never to return to mining after nearly dying in a 1967 incident.
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Consolidation Coal Co
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MIT Press book markets city oriented learning guide
MIT Press reports 45000 copies of What can you learn from a child a 94 page paperback by Richard S Wurman selling in three weeks The book describes a city oriented encyclopedia of learning with topics from What can you learn from an accountant to What can you learn at a 200 The author presents learning as a handshake with a city and a gateway to the real world through street vendors and public spaces The work highlights a visual and practical approach to education for children in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
MIT Press
Michael Connolly
Richard S. Wurman
Philadelphia
Wurman
Lpanhandlers
Burn Injuries A New Epidemic Aims To Cut Burns
Three Texas doctors from the University of Texas Galveston urge a national campaign to reduce burn injuries and deaths. They call for a single federal agency to lead prevention, better heater designs, public education, and flame retardant clothing. In 1970 fires and burns killed 6,700 people with 250,000 injuries. They note burns in the U S exceed deaths from polio at its 1954 peak.
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Chicago
United States
Texas
Journal of the American Medical Association
National Safety Council
Peking Buys Concorde Jets In Preliminary Pact
China signed a preliminary contract to purchase two Concorde airliners from Aerospatiale and BAC. Wang Ya-xiang and Henri Ziegler signed the deal in Paris. Ziegler said the jets could connect Paris and Peking in eight hours, with stops yet undecided. The aircraft will be used by a Chinese national airline.
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China
Wang Ya-xiang
China National Machinery Import and Exports Corp
Henri Ziegler
Aerospatiale
British Aircraft Corp
Ziegler
Peking
Diamond tour raises funds for clinics in two cities
Neil Phoenix House in New York and the Diamond donated $3,000 to the Los Angeles Free Clinic from souvenir program sales during a recent U.S. tour by the Diamond. The funds will buy medical supplies and support operations at both centers.
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