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...Like the Chernobyl facility, the Windscale Pile No. 1 plutonium-production plant north of Liverpool, England, used graphite to slow down neutrons emitted during nuclear fission. When workers discovered a fire in the reactor, they sprayed it with carbon dioxide but failed to quench the blaze. By the time the fire was put out with water, radioactive material had contaminated 200 sq. mi. of countryside. Officials banned the sale of milk from cows grazing in the area for more than a month. The government estimated that at least 33 cancer deaths could be traced to the effects of the accident...
...lure worked. After decades of silence, Leitch arranged to meet a reader named Truda, in Liverpool: "Recognition was total, instantaneous. Her expression revealed a moment of fear so acute it was like a pain." Like many other adopted children, her son had his own fears. Were his own flaws environmental, or were they "symbolic perhaps of a greater human carelessness which would forever tie me to my mother's defection...
Stirling was born in Glasgow, England in 1926. A year later, his family moved to Liverpool, where his father worked as a nautical engineer...
...throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways. Reporters who arrived to cover the rioting were beaten. Two white women were raped. Later in the week, rioting broke out in the port city of Liverpool's Toxteth district, also the scene of racial disturbances...
...offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office, J.C. Silber listens to the "majestic tolling" of church bells and is "glad to get away from it all." Understandably: Silber is a German spy who will retain his cover long enough to return home. In Berlin, Albert Einstein writes to his mother, "Only now do I begin...