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...Rome's marble-floored National Research Institute, 42 experts from 21 nations gathered last week under the sponsorship of the International Union Against Cancer to explore the case against a worrisome potential cancer hazard: the dyes and additives used in the preparation and preservation of foods, soaps, cosmetics. The conference's conclusion: although the vast majority of dyes, additives and wrapping materials have not yet been adequately tested, there is clear evidence that some possess cancer-causing qualities. Doctors were careful to point out that they were not drawing a bill of particulars, but merely listing substances that...
...year one of the principal transatlantic shipping lanes. By routine but not rule, westbound vessels follow the northern side of Track Charlie, eastbound ships the southern. But that evening the eastbound Stockholm was holding to the northern edge. On a clear night the course holds no serious hazard. But for three days fog had covered the sea from Newfoundland's banks down to Nantucket. The view from a ship's bridge was scarcely farther than the bow. Radar sets searched the seas ahead, but longtime masters with tight schedules reduced speed only slightly for foul weather...
...Thus, the current series of tests [in the Pacific] has produced much of importance, not only from a military point of view, but from a humanitarian aspect. We are convinced that mass hazard from fallout is not a necessary complement to the use of large nuclear weapons...
...Atom. Answering pleas by India, Yugoslavia and Russia that the U.S. stop testing nuclear weapons, U.S. Delegate (to the U.N. Disarmament Commission) James J. Wadsworth last week replied that 1) the tests "do not constitute a hazard" when properly conducted; 2) the U.S., in the interests of its own and free world security, will continue the tests until agreement is reached to limit nuclear weapons "under proper safeguards...
Luminous watch dials, he wrote, do contain radioactive material, but the quantity "is negligibly small and constitutes no hazard to the individual . . . unless one were to eat the dial." Luminous switch markers are harmless, too, but Taylor urged moderation. "One should not fill his home with such devices unless there is real need for them...