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...Short. Four parents refused, including David Mason, a wealthy London art dealer, who objected to plans to put the money into a charitable trust, which could mean that it would be distributed according to need. Mason held out for three long years in the face of legal harassment and pressures from other parents who blamed him for holding up the cash...
Last spring Distillers raised its offer by $ 1,000,000-on condition that all parents accept the amount as a final settlement (even though it fell far short of one actuarial estimate of the real damages, calculated at $240,000 per child).* In August, Distillers dropped the condition, but Mason and a handful of other parents still held...
...posters began appearing around the country, showing, in one case, a spirits glass with a deformed child in the bottom. No fewer than 254 M.P.s signed a motion calling on the company to honor its "moral responsibilities." Then a group of rebel shareholders in the company, including Art Dealer Mason, called for an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders to discuss possible removal of Distillers Chairman Sir Alexander McDonald-who had been knighted only last year for "services to exports." The charge: "failure to provide adequate compensation" for the thalidomide children...
Edward S. Mason was viewed in a similar light when he was appointed acting dean in 1969 following an illness to then-dean Franklin Ford. Mason served for six months while the University pulled itself back together in the aftermath of the 1969 strike...
...Dorton worries that "you can't have kids in class freezing." For want of fuel, some firms like AMF Western Tool Division (which turns out lawnmowers and such winter products as snowplows) and Can Tex (which manufactures brick, tile and sewer pipe at plants in Ottumwa, Redfield and Mason City) have had to stop production altogether or cancel night shifts. Governor Robert Ray has asked the University of Iowa and all large businesses in the state to switch back to burning highly polluting No. 5 or No. 6 fuel oil in order to stretch supplies of low-polluting...