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...Physician Robert Reza, having an affair with a church organist, flies from a Washington medical convention to his home in Bayport, shoots and strangles his wife, then flies back to the conference to establish an alibi...
...Folks in Bayport, Minn. (pop. 2,900), can hardly wait for the Christmas holidays to end, for the big event of the year comes in icy January: Profit Sharing Day at Andersen Corp. For 74 years Andersen, a leading U.S. manufacturer of windows and patio doors, has split a chunk of its earnings among workers. After a banner 1987, this year's pot promised to be huge. But the 3,700 employees, many of whom rented limousines and dressed in their finest Saturday-night steppin'-out clothes to attend the Jan. 16 ceremony, had no idea just how huge. Amid...
Another pesticide, Phosvel, has caused paralysis, hallucinations, blurred vision, and dizziness among employees in the Bayport, Texas plant that manufactured the pesticide. Banned from use in the United States, Phosvel was exported to Egypt where it caused death in humans and farm animals that came in contact with...
Typical of the agency's shortcomings, says the subcommittee, is the EPA'S failure to act effectively against leptophos, an insecticide that has recently been implicated in an outbreak of nervous disorders among employees at a plant operated by the Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Bayport, Texas. The company, notes the report, failed to inform the EPA of the illnesses for five months. But the EPA ignored equally compelling evidence that the chemical was dangerous. In 1973 and 1974, while the EPA was evaluating leptophos, it received repeated warnings from scientists that the compound was neurotoxic, or capable...
...They spend the first weeks off the job doing all the long-put-off chores-fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...