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...knows I'm going to file a 40-page brief. That means he'll have to write a 40-page reply brief. I work Saturdays; he doesn't. He knows the trouble will go up and down the System and hang around like a black cloud for years...
...case boils down to the old and increasingly familiar story of the one that got away. Today, Harold Geneen can go about the business of overseeing the globe-spanning empire of ITT that he so carefully built during the last 19 years without a single official cloud of suspicion hovering over him. Bell and the federal attorneys in charge of the ITT probe tersely informed the Washington press corps that Monday afternoon that no criminal charges would be lodged against the board chairman. Despite the many similarities between the testimony of Geneen and his accused flunkies and the factual contradictions...
...been paid last year, it would have taken a bite out of Kodak's profits of $643.4 million, which it earned on sales of nearly $6 billion. Kodak will doubtless avoid paying anything for years, while it carries appeals to higher courts. But the legal battle stands to cloud the future of a company that has suffered some reverses lately. Kodak has been less than victorious in its battle with Polaroid in the instant-camera market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What...
...Seveso. Italy, a town ravaged by a toxic chemical. The "Italian Hiroshima" occurred shortly after noon on July 10, 1976, when a chemical reactor at Icmesa, a plant owned by the Swiss firm of Hoffmann-La Roche, overheated, then blew its safety valve and released a huge grayish cloud into the clear Italian sky. Workers and company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature of the TCP soaring above 200° C. Dioxin...
Such mischievous effects have not escaped the attention of military authorities who in classified studies have noted that a cloud of carbon fibers could be used, for instance, to incapacitate electrical equipment over wide areas-as well as knock out enemy radar. Because some 350 tons of carbon fibers are now produced annually in the U.S. and abroad, the Carter Administration ordered that much of the NASA study be made public. It also directed several agencies under the auspices of the Department of Commerce to look into the matter further...