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...ignored the large body of public testimony by eminent medical experts about the lack of scientific justification for health-warning labels on the products. I thought it was unfair and unbalanced reporting of a complex and important issue. TIME readers deserve better. Louis F. Bantle, Chairman U.S. Tobacco Greenwich, Conn...
...president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing that "our separate organizations . . . present a tragically divided church to a tragically divided world." The result was the Consultation...
...culprit in hazardous-waste dumping. Companies have not always used the best judgment in dealing with their toxic garbage, but we should ask ourselves why all these unwanted chemicals exist. We, the consumers who purchase these products, are also responsible for the by-products. David A. Moskowitz Litchfield, Conn...
...last week chose a U.S.-French consortium to supply it with a sophisticated, $4.3 billion field-radio system. In one of the largest U.S. military contracts ever awarded for a foreign-designed system, the Army picked RITA, a joint venture by France's Thomson-CSF and GTE of Stamford, Conn., and turned down a competitive system offered by the British-American combine of Plessey Co. and Rockwell International...
...also raises some concerns. Dr. John Farquhar, director of Stanford Medical Center's research in disease prevention program, notes that "one of the pitfalls is people not seeking medical attention when they should." Acknowledges Frank Morgan, vice president for a pioneering health promotion plan at Berol Corp. in Danbury, Conn.: "We certainly don't want employees doing stupid things like not seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker...