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...LATEST BOOK, The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur relates a poignant experience during his Cape Cod vacation last June. He was reading the Provincetown Advocate and draped across the front page was the wary proviso: "TRURO RADAR COULD FRY HANG-GLIDERS...
Teresa M. Brodeur Worcester, Mass...
...Brodeur quotes Pittsburgh Coming's health director, Dr. Lee B. Grant, as telling one federal investigator that there was no danger at the Tyler plant, for an appalling reason: "That place is so dusty none of the men work there long enough to get sick." Covering some of the same ground, Scott reports that Dr. R.T.R. DeTreville, president of the Industrial Health Foundation, visited a pipe-manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh, where two workers had been hospitalized after being exposed to epoxy resins. Asked by a British doctor working with him why the plant was not closed until the extent...
Burning Story. Scott is a freelance writer and newspaperwoman (Winston-Salem Journal, Baltimore Sun) who specializes in industrial hazards and environment. Her research ranges more widely than Brodeur's. She tracks down cases of beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage...
Both books have flaws. For a writer of well-told short stories and novels, Brodeur is agonizingly plodding, repetitive and needlessly complex in his report. He quotes sources directly and at great length, in precise but stilted language that sounds too edited to be accurately conversational. Scott tells a more graphic and human story but takes less care with definitions and statistics. She is thus more vulnerable to industry counterattack than the meticulous Brodeur. Yet theirs is a burning story that needs telling. As old-fashioned crusaders, Scott and Brodeur should stimulate public concern over a largely unrecognized menace...