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In December the Canadian mining company Inco Ltd., in Sudbury, Ontario, informed 58 female secretaries (many in their 40s and 50s) that they had three weeks to decide whether to accept layoffs or report for training classes in mining. Said an Inco official, “Mining is not as physically demanding as it once was.”
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Officials in Marion County, South Carolina, finally agreed in February to change the name of a lake next to the Great Pee Dee River, in the southern part of the county. It had long been called “Nigger Lake,” and despite local controversy the name still appears on a map distributed by the chamber of commerce.
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, resident Annabel Elliott Outhouse, author of a book about privies on Long Island, Nova Scotia, called Outhouses of the Island, hosted a family reunion last July, which was attended by 300 people from Canada and the United States. Outhouse is the most common surname on Long Island.
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