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...study found 2,3,7,8T, a highly toxic form of dioxin, in the edible parts of fish in amounts twice as high as the level established by the Food and Drug Administration as a "level of concern." Environmental officials contend that the buildup of the poison in fish over time, a process known as bioaccumulation, poses a long-range, if not immediate, health hazard. Warned Adamkus: "This is going to be a ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which...
...MILLION ORDER from Navy will help Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. out of cutback woes. The Long Island company is getting a $46 million contract to produce propeller-driven, all-weather, radar-equipped WF-2 Tracer early-warning planes and a $40 million production contract for transonic, needle-nosed F9F-8T jet fighter-trainers...
Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...
...Rear Admiral Thurston B. Clark, commander of the test center. "We tell them to 'shut your eyes and go straight ahead.' This seat is the greatest invention since the parachute.'' The Navy is installing the seat (cost: about $2,500 each) in 50 Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainers...
...disadvantage of Harvard hockey in the face of its two principal rivals, Yale and Princeton, who virtually had rinks of their own. The Area was opened in 1910, but it has always meant an awkward trip and a very crowded schedule. Now oven prop schools like Andover, Taft, and 8t. Doms have rinks, with 8t. George's and Choate hoping to open their soon...