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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Metropolitan Edison--one of the owners of Three Mile Island--worked with NRC technicians and nuclear engineers trying to stabilize the haywire reactor, local residents were left uninformed. Hazardous Xenon 131 gas seeped into the atmosphere, and high-level bursts of radiation escaped to the containment building as plant officials released steam from the overheating equipment. Such steam releases were made, initially, without notifying local civil defense officials, who later expressed outrage at the situation's handling. These releases may have left their cancerous mark on thousands...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: After the Fallout | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...player for Newton South High School in her sophomore and junior years, Richmond led the team to consecutive state titles. Meanwhile, she continued on the tournament circuit...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Following an Open-Minded Road to Tennis Success | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

After from high school a half-year early, Richmond played the Southern Circuit--the women's No. 3 professional level--for four months. With moderate success she traveled to such tennis hotspots as Mobile, Ala. But she grew disenchanted with the circuit and left it before the summer...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Following an Open-Minded Road to Tennis Success | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...would think that the high-scoring, laid-buck affair would have affected Harvard's fielding, but coach Alex Nathigian's leather-slappers turned in their third errorless game...

Author: By Bill Schefi, | Title: Batsmen Bag B.C. With 10-5 Drubbing | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...gray and wet, adding a touch of gloom to the usual anxiety in the New York air. High atop the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) building, chairman of the board John deButts has a commanding view of the World Trade Centers. The rest of the building, as far as I can tell from the lobby and the hallways, seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: Minding Everybody's Business | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

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