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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That bit of morbid humor refers to possible resentment by the Kerr-McGee Corp., a major energy conglomerate, over testimony Smith has given in a bitter trial. It is the celebrated $11.5 million negligence suit brought by the heirs of Karen Silkwood, a former employee at a Kerr-McGee plutonium-processing facility in nearby Crescent (pop. 1,568). She accused the company of being cavalier about worker safety, and then died at 28 in a still mysterious car accident in 1974. The trial, however, focuses on charges that Kerr-McGee was negligent in a series of plutonium contaminations that took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: The Pangs of Bearing Witness | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

CRAB CATCHING: With a week off before the May 12 Eastern Sprints (New Preston, Conn.), the Crimson squad is hopeful. Three seat Karen Spencer said yesterday, "The Yale race freaked us out a little, but we can win. I'm convinced...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: Yale Oarswomen Dump 'Cliffe Heavies | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Junior Meg Meyer and freshman Kristen Mertz could not hold off Dartmouth's Karen Loeffler and Missy Morris in the final match of yesterday's Crimson-Big Green endurance contest, and the women's tennis team fell, 5-4, in Hanover...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Netwomen Fall to Big Green, 5-4; Record Now 3-7 | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...sampling of some of the early Harvard finishers. All times are unofficial. Dave Sullivan 2:34 Paul Jacobs 2:38 Dave Atkins 2:41 Matt Rabuzzi 2:41 Dave Edelstein 2:50 John Rice 3:01 Ellen Hart 3:06 Roger Klein 3:10 Robert Cox 3:13 Karen Messer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some of the Early Harvard Finishers | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...script short-circuits him, and he is reduced to cynic snarls and stylized struts. Daniel Valdez is winning as a gang leader with unstained valor. He is stalemated in a TV-style love triangle between his loyal Chicano girlfriend (Rose Portillo) and a Jewish minority-rights defender (Karen Hensel) of inflammable zeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Threads Bare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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