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...mercury contamination had reached a dangerous level in some people, who began to suffer the crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked by convulsions, 106 citizens of Minamata died over a period of a decade, and many other victims became deaf, blind or insane. In 1963, after scientists had determined that mercury poisoning was to blame, the government banned fishing in the bay and ordered Chisso to remove the pollutant from the plant's wastes. The company was soon able to stop using mercury in its industrial processes...
...Government should have persuaded six or so oil companies to put up $50 million each to bail out the airline. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell failed in earlier attempts to get help from the U.S. Government; his plea last September for a $10.1 million monthly subsidy fell on deaf ears...
...name was obliterated from the credits. In 1955 Zoya was released and reunited with her daughter. Since then Zoya has returned to films as a character actress, and Victoria has become a famous movie actress herself. She has been featured in 17 major films, and starred as a deaf-mute in A Ballad of Love. When Ballad was released in the U.S. in 1966, Victoria was acclaimed by one reviewer as "perfect in a difficult part." Divorced from her scriptwriter husband, she lives with her mother in a two-bedroom apartment in a fashionable Moscow neighborhood...
Chief Justice Warren Burger, outgoing Attorney General William Saxbe and current A.B. A. President James Fellers have all urged Congress to raise the salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such...
...there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends, drunk and sober, I must have failed in those days by being in the presence of their anguish and yet deaf and blind...