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...Berenice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century: MIT Museum Building, 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge, through...
...people are not panicking. Says O'Donnell: "Most of them have no interest whatsoever. I know people who have health problems, and even they refuse to get involved." Many seem troubled less by threats to health than by threats to property values. Especially since O'Donnell, Ross and Abbott formed a group called People United to Restore the Environment, the women have been attacked as kooks and cranks...
...Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...
...Abbott figures that her housewifey style has been a tactical advantage. "They weren't scared of me." One day when Baird & McGuire was still operating, she arrived at the executive office unannounced, went in to see Cameron Baird, the head of the company, and got a firsthand look at the contamination from him. A public meeting last June with EPA officials at Holbrook High School, Abbott says, "was a real lynch mob. And I think I led it." She sounds both abashed and proud. The EPA had intended simply to present its latest findings. Instead its representatives faced the point...
...naturally, they await results at the site itself. They want a permanent cleanup, says Ross, "so that we can all go back into Sleepy Hollow and rest assured that nothing is wrong." Curiously, not even the local activists plan to move away. "Where am I going to move," asks Abbott, "that it's not going to crop up in my backyard again? Where is safe...