Miners battle black lung amid flawed benefits system
Clarence Sheppard, 63, suffers silicosis from 20 years as a coal miner in West Virginia. Congress created aid, but federal rules deny many claims, forcing applicants to prove disability amid enrollment hurdles and costly legal barriers. The UMW cites hundreds of thousands affected. many denied or delayed relief despite documented illness.
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Sheppard
Appalachian Mountains
United Mine Workers Union
Bill Cody
Oakhill Black Lung Association
Clarence Sheppard
UMW
Social Security Department
Editorial on feminism and college women’s career choices
Researchers Angrist and Almquist studied 87 women over four years at a private college. They found increased career interest during college, yet many remained family oriented. By senior year half were engaged or married, with many choosing traditional female fields and relying on husbands for money and status.
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Shirley Angrist
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Almquist
Carnegie-Mellon
North Texas State University
Denton
Associated Press
Susan J. Reimer
Drs. Angrist
Almquist
Freud
Texas
Mark White Jr
U.S
White
Bob Bullock
Bullock
Editor notes Texas drug problem and policy push
Letter from R B Mac McAlister Austin urges immediate action on drug abuse in Texas. Cites rising arrests from 1965 to 1974, warns heroin threat along Mexican border and impact on schools, urges broader funding and decisive state measures. References Dr Judianne Densen-Gerber and quotes House Speaker Bill Clayton and Congressman George Mahon.
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Bill Clayton
George Mahon
Texas
Judianne Densen- Gerber
New York
Densen-Gerber
Mahon
Bundling in New England Love,Nineteenth Century Practice
The article recalls a winter New England custom where courting couples spent the night fully clothed in a single bed divided by a board. The practice, born of rough roads and cold, surprised British officers stationed in New England during the American Revolution, as noted by The World Almanac.
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New England
This Day In History August 12 1975 Highlights
On August 12 1898 the peace protocol ending the Spanish American War was signed after three months of hostilities. Other events include Florence restored to the Medici in 1530 and Isaac Singer patenting his sewing machine in 1851. Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in 1914 and the Atlantic Charter was drafted in 1941.
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Associated Press
Holy Roman Empire
Florence
Medici
Isaac Singer
Pittstown
N.Y
Britain
Austria-Hungary
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Henri Petain
Nazi Germany
Little Rock
Ark
U.S. Senate
White House
Department of Housing and Urban Development
West Germany
Soviet Union
Ussr
Lenin Peak
Cantinflas
John Derek
Buck Owens
Josh Billings
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Watertown
Visiting Across Generations Bridge at Tamalpais Nursery
In Mill Valley California a weekly visit began when toddlers at Tamalpais Nursery School suggested greeting residents of the Redwoods Retirement Home across the street. Wheelchair users and cane walkers in the home soon exchange smiles as the tiny guests arrive weekly.
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Mill Valley
Calif
Tamalpais
Redwoods
State insurance board approves first malpractice rates in 20 years
Texas regulators approved basic and enhanced malpractice insurance rates for doctors dentists and hospitals, rejecting Argonaut Group for hospital coverage. Rates vary by county with 140 to 1032 annually for non-surgical physicians and 5416 to 8256 for orthopedic surgeons. hospital rates rise to about 40 50 over earlier estimates. The move is touted as easing a growing Texas medical malpractice crisis.
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Austin
State Insurance Board
Argonaut Group
Board
Travis County
Harris County
Texas
Joe Christie
Texas Hospital Association
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Oakhill
W.va
NEA
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OM Isey
Lynnell Williams
John Hill
Hill
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Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Texas Register Act
Harris County Commissioners Court
Juvenile Probation Department
eState Board of Examiners of Psychologists
State Supreme Court
Duval County
Archer Parr
New Orleans
Parr
George B. Parr
San Antonio
Midland
Joe D. Hawkins
Dallas
Dolph Briscoe
Briscoe
Calvin R. Guest
Bryan
R. J. Nunley
Sabinal
Harry M. Provence
Waco
Herbert J. Frensley
Houston
Alfred I. Davies
House
Senate
Mary Pearl Williams
Mart Hoffman
Brownwood
Texas Youth Council
John R. Arredondo
TYC
Bill Hobby
Mexico
Capitol
State Board of
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O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
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