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...Corning's new chairman, Keith McKennon, a veteran of Dow Chemical's Agent Orange and dioxin crises, promised to cooperate with the FDA and hinted that the company might even help women who wanted their implants removed and could not afford the surgery. But Dow Corning's problems are not over. Last week a congressional committee asked for a criminal investigation into the firm's handling of implants. Among the evidence: a 1980 memo from a Dow Corning salesman complaining that the company's decision to put "a questionable lot of mammaries on the market . . . has to rank right...
...Michelle Deast (C), 6-1, 6-4; 3. Wan Chen (C) d. Jen Minkus (H), 6-3, 7-5; 4. Erika Elmuts (H) d. Judy Beckenbach (C), 6-1, 6-4; 5. Rachel Pollock (H) d. Carol Katz (C), 6-0, 6-2; 6. Liza Parker (H) d. Chris McKennon...
Major Pierce W. McKennon, one of the great aces of the war, was rescued from a German wheatfield in just this manner by his wingman Lieut. George Green . . . Lieut. Green even went so far as to strafe and kill the German soldiers who were attempting to capture McKennon before he landed, picked him up and flew out with McKennon sitting on his lap, having thrown away his parachute in order to make room in the cockpit...
...Orleans last week, cotton brokers were stirred by news of the biggest single transaction since Speculator Tom Jordan dumped his huge futures holdings (TIME, Oct. 28). In a spot cash deal, a 73-year-old Arkansas farmer and cotton trader, C. R. McKennon, sold his entire holdings of 6,319 bales for close...
...knew how he had accumulated so much cotton, nor would McKennon say. But he took pride in showing the folks back in Dumas, Ark. (pop. 2,315) that he had made good. McKennon never got beyond the fourth grade, where he grew so much bigger than the other boys that his family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear...