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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence points in one direction: Kerr McGee was grossly neglig ent in its handling of the plutonium. Plant executives resented Silkwood's attempts to publicize the unsafe working conditions. Karen Silkwood was mentally competent, emotionally stable and awake on the November day when her white Honda slid across the road and crashed into a culvert. The investigations that followed were both cursory and inadequate. More tenuous but still plausible, is his contention that someone tried to prevent Silkwood from delivering her evidence, and inadvertently ran her off the road...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Conspiracy? | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...father, Piano Virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, had trained him as a musician, and he turned out to have a natural tal ent for the language of hand and rin gers. It took him only three weeks to learn to sign the role fluently. "I fell in love with the whole concept of sign," he says, "communicating physically and poetically." What makes the role so difficult is that he must speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Broadway Has a New Language | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

When he started to play in junior tour naments, there was no mistaking his tal ent, but his unorthodox strokes were a bewilderment. As he grew stronger, he gave up using both hands on his forehand, but the two-handed backhand had be come a fixture of his game, as had the fondness for topspin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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