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Seveso, Italy, July 10,1976. Between 1 Ib. and 22 Ibs. of poisonous dioxin were released into the atmosphere over an area of 4,500 acres when a chemical reaction at the Hoffman-La Roche plant set off an explosion. More than 1,000 residents were forced to flee, and many children developed a disfiguring rash called chloracne, but no lives were lost...
...Friday Schroeder tested a new portable power system for the artificial heart. For 22 minutes in the afternoon, and an hour later that evening, he was free of the 323-lb., air-driven unit that normally runs the heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook...
...achievements become even more incredible when you consider the fact that at 6-ft., 3-in., and 220-Ib., Ford is about 20 or 30 pounds lighter than most of the offensive linemen he faces. But what he lacks in size he makes up for with quickness and an attention to fundamentals...
...aspirations for better times. "Merry Christmas to mother-an electrical appliance that saves labor" was a $2.39 automatic iron. Daughters could help out with a 22-piece deluxe toy laundry set with scrubboard and heavy metal washtub for $1.98. Somewhat more in the Christmas spirit were 2-Ib. fruitcakes for 49?, Tinkertoys at 69?, canaries for $2.95 and a Kodak camera...
...when a photographer asked her to pose for a picture. Thus began the modeling career of Lisa Sliwa, national director of the Guardian Angels civilian vigilante group and wife of Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa, 30. Newly signed by the Zoli agency, the Chicago-bred, 5-ft. 9-in., 125-Ib. brunette, who says she is 25, still plans to spend her nights riding the city's trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than patrolling the subways, so I'll be able to relate...