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...years in Tyler. But the scars from the plant's presence will not soon dis appear. While producing insulation for the boilers and pipes of naval ships, workers in the plant were exposed to enormous quantities of asbestos dust, which, once inhaled, never leaves the lungs. Now, based on previous experience with asbestos-caused diseases, medical experts estimate that as many as 300 of the 869 employed at the plant since 1954 will die of asbestosis (a permanent and often progressive scarring of lung tissue from inhaled asbestos fibers), lung cancer or cancers of the co lon, rectum...
Their deaths should come as no sur prise to either company or Government officials. Doctors have long suspected that asbestos dust is hazardous; there has been ample documentation of increased incidence of lung disease and cancers among people exposed to the mineral. As early as 1961, Dr. Irving Selikoff, 59, of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, and Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, 61, of the American Cancer Society, confirmed the deadly relationship in studies of workers at a Paterson, N.J., asbestos plant. They documented their work in scientific papers and meetings. They also showed that even small quantities...
...aptly bore his name. Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became-second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument is Britain's National Health Service, still the model...
...fifties, resurrection of what Brooks calls their "Dead Sea Scrolls." And, spaced throughout 2000 and Thirteen, flashes of the delightful younger old man show through. Asked for his opinion of the greatest medical advance of his time, he pauses, and finally croaks," Liquid Pr ell --You put a heart-lung machine in your medicine cabinet, you open the door, it falls out--and what happens? It breaks!" And discussing his 400 or 500 marriages, of which exactly 71 per cent were successful, he boasts of his 42,000 children. "21,000 doctors," he says. "And not one comes...
David Halberstam returns to Cambridge to push his latest best-seller, a new way to determine if you have lung cancer or cataracts, entitled The Chest and the Eye Test...