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...Ainsworths balked at the notion of group control and left. Was that a proper Iron Age decision? Says Lindsay: "An Iron Age mother would have attended to her child, especially if it was a boy." A specialist later reported that the primitive diet had produced the ailment, which contemporary meals promptly cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...proposed legislation would set up an Administration Board of Compensation (ABC) to hear claims from victims. A victim applying to the ABC for compensation would have to present scientific evidence designed to show the origin of the victim's ailment. Once the cause was determined, the ABC would order the manufacturer who was responsible for the damage to compensate the victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Testifies | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

...abnormally high levels of the chemical in his body, has an enlarged liver and spleen. The doctor who examined him thought the condition may have been due to the PBB, but knowledge of PBB's effects is so sketchy that no one can directly tie any one ailment to consumption of the chemical...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: To the Ends of the Earth: The Spread of Industrial Poisons | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

...Swedish translates, "the whole team was sick today," and sick they were as somebody in every event except the 1000 was affected to some degree by a pervasive flu ailment...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Army Troops In, Tramples Track Men | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Spruille Braden, 83, outspoken ambassador to three Latin American countries who became Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1945-47); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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