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...work: Norwood chooses to treat Kramer's 1969 re-election as a tribute to the city's spirit. "Paterson had every reason to seek an easy way out; but the city did not choose to do so," she writes. "Underneath its hates and fears and confusions, the city's fiber ran strong." But one wants to know more about where the votes came from that kept Kramer in office, and how he managed to get them to the polls...
When it returns from its election recess, Congress should delay the application of the law for 60 days to allow time for public hearings and to give Buckley's office a chance to answer the remaining questions. But the basic fiber of the Buckley amendment should remain intact. In a time that has seen the drawbacks of secrecy and the benefits of accountability in bureaucratic structures, Harvard shouldn't even want to be an exception...
...best tradition of the early muckrakers, both Paul Brodeur and Rachel Scott movingly demonstrate their concern. Scott, 27, studies what she calls "industrial slaughter in America." Brodeur, 43, analyzes in extraordinary detail the "delayed carnage" of disease-inducing chemicals and fiber-laden air that exist in all too many of today's factories. The pair worked separately (Scott full time for three years, Brodeur intermittently for six) but often on the same scandalous health conditions. The tone of their writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal...
Brodeur relates how officials of the Pittsburgh Corning Corp. were finally pressured by a few concerned Government inspectors and union leaders to do something about the excessive amount of fiber detected in air samples taken as early as 1967 at their dusty asbestos plant in Tyler, Texas. But not before the damning results of the tests were filed away for four years by complacent higher Government officials. The plant was eventually closed rather than meet higher health standards. The workers were never warned that the fiber concentration far exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos...
...Rhodes, 79, prolific naval architect whose Manhattan firm laid down lines for 700 vessels ranging from mine layers to troopships during World War II but was best known for his designs of sailboats, among them the popular 11½-ft. Penguin dinghy, Bounty II, one of the first successful fiber-glass ocean racers, and the twelve-meter sloop Weatherly, winner of the 1962 America's Cup races; in New Rochelle...