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...Arsenic and Old Lace...
...usual, the dramatic gestures and splashy headlines (ARSENIC AND OLD LUCE) obscured many of her more significant achievements in Rome. By the time she left, Luce had played an important role in persuading Italian businessmen to fight Communist labor domination; had helped resolve a decades-old dispute with the signing by Italy and Yugoslavia of the Trieste settlement in 1954; and had seen Italy join the United Nations. Luce's predecessor had been recognized by exactly 2% of the Italian population; "La Luce" was known...
When Americans report to work each day, many of them encounter hazards as endemic to the job as lunch pails and the morning coffee break. In July OSHA penalized Chrysler, alleging that workers at a Newark, Del., assembly plant were exposed to high levels of arsenic and lead in the paint and soldering areas. (The company plans to pay the $1.6 million fine.) In Chicago, ten of the 5,000 workers who have helped build the so-called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since...
...there had been an unusually high number of unexplained deaths on the wards where Harvey had worked. The station's investigative report on the subject in June prompted a grand jury probe. The bodies of ten people were exhumed by the Hamilton County coroner, and traces of arsenic were discovered in several. Last week WCPO reported that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide...
...most serious of the OSHA citations involved charges that Chrysler knowingly exposed employees at the Delaware plant to dangerous levels of lead and arsenic. OSHA Assistant Secretary John Pendergrass said the conditions "put workers in jeopardy" and called the agency's action the "only possible response to a totally unacceptable situation." Though the company did not admit any wrongdoing, it will pay the fine and correct the problems. Gerald Greenwald, chairman of Chrysler Motors, the carmaking division, noted that the Delaware facility was not typical of the company's factories. Said he: "Risk of injury or illness to our employees...