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Your informative article on radon [ENVIRONMENT, July 22] failed to express the panic, frustration and helplessness people feel when they discover their homes are unsafe because of radon contamination. The number of people affected by this gas is larger than the number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg...
...part they avoided both partisan rhetoric and talk of disarmament. Like the Hiroshima service, which used doves to make its point, many of the American commemoratives made use of simple symbols to underscore mankind's vulnerability to nuclear weapons. The displays were frail and mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy analysis has not defused in the 40 years since Hiroshima. And they raised, too, 40-year-old questions of whether the Bomb should have been used at all (see ESSAY). Among the memorials...
...especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston's] Nolan Ryan told me the other night? He said, 'I hope it's me pitching the day you're going for the record. You can look for the fast ball right down Broadway in the express lane.' I can just see him pulling up his straps for me now. 'Let's play a little hardball...
...stock offering was a spectacular success and an unlikely one. Last week American Express, the $12.9 billion (1984 sales) financial-services conglomerate, sold to the public 54% of Fireman's Fund, its property-and-casualty-insurance subsidiary. Investors snapped up 35.2 million shares for a total of more than $900 million. It represented the country's largest initial public offering ever...
...American Express was hardly selling off one of its crown jewels. In the past 2½ years, Fireman's had underwriting losses of $1.8 billion. William McCormick, formerly a top American Express executive, has been Fireman's president since December 1983. Last June the subsidiary was put up for sale, but no corporation wanted to buy it. "They couldn't sell it to anyone else, so they sold it to the public," explains one analyst...