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...October of 1983, the Cambridge health commissioner [Melvin Chalfen] inspected the lab and allowed five months to elapse before taking any action, said Weedon, adding that Chalfen declared ADL's testing unsafe last March because of political pressure from the city council...
Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King were among 12 demonstrators who yesterday entered the Boston offices of the New York-based Deak-Perera Inc., which sells pure gold Krugerrands, the South African currency...
...billions of dollars. Last week a panel of federal judges in Washington ordered that 18 separate cases against Union Carbide be combined into one suit and said that * it would be assigned to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Pretrial hearings could start as early as next month. Attorney Melvin Belli, who is suing Union Carbide for $15 billion in the name of several victims, predicted that the suits could be settled by the end of the year...
...public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...
...Weinberger may find the going tougher than usual on Capitol Hill, where discontent is growing even in precincts normally friendly to the Pentagon. House Democrats ousted Arms Services Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois, an aging and pliable hawk, and replaced him with Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a maverick who has often crossed the Pentagon. In the Senate, the retirement of Armed Services Committee Chairman John Tower, the Pentagon's chief congressional water carrier in years past, paved the way for the succession of the independent-minded Barry Goldwater. Vows Aspin: "Congress simply isn't going to go along with letting...