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There was a time when I would have shaken my head in wonder at the thought of writing a column about golf. Before my fall from grace--and onto the fairways of America--golf was filed in the same general area of my consciousness as Cabbage Patch dolls and pledge breaks on public television...
...Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing a September report sponsored by the W.R. Grace Co. chemical firm on the toxicity of a controversial North Cambridge dump site the company used...
...declared a Grace attorney. The company still denies it polluted the wells or caused any illness. Grace settled, he said, only because it was less expensive than fighting the case. The settlement also ruled out the possibility that a jury would reach a precedent-setting verdict holding a corporation liable for injury caused by pollution...
...doesn't replace a life, and it doesn't buy you health and happiness," said Joan Zona of Woburn, Mass., whose son Michael, 8, died of leukemia in 1974. The Zonas and eleven other families agreed last week to accept a reported $8 million from W.R. Grace & Co., ending four years of litigation in which they charged that Grace had dumped cancer- causing wastes on land near a Woburn aquifer, polluting two wells and leading to six deaths. The settlement, said an attorney for the families, was a "recognition by Grace of responsibility" for Woburn's tragedy...
...bebop, and especially in the laconic tempo of Gordon's speech and walk. Gordon, whose only previous movie gig was a stroll-on in the 1955 melodrama Unchained, commands the screen with the dignity of an exhausted emperor. He mines humor from his fastidious diction, has a ponderous grace and takes pauses that could drive Pinter nuts with impatience. No trained actor could have delivered this performance. For it is not so much a performance as an inspired riff on the theme of native sons abroad, talking to each other in a language they are creating, on the fly, with...