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Robert Kott loved the small, neat home overlooking Black Creek in the southeastern corner of Niagara Falls, N.Y., a grimy industrial town near the Canadian border. In the 14 years since he acquired it the muscular chemical worker has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours painting, insulating and otherwise caring for his precious property. But last week Kott called it quits, shuttering up the house and fleeing with his wife Joann and their five children, ages seven to 15. Said he: "I don't mind telling you we've been scared for a long time, scared...
Inside nearby houses, thick, gummy substances began oozing through cellar walls and clogging sump pumps. Some houses were pervaded by strange smells that occupants said gave them headaches. Most puzzling, the incidence of serious illness, including cancer, was much higher in this neighborhood than in other areas of Niagara Falls. Miscarriages seemed to occur frequently; and so many children were born with birth defects that street signs were posted warning motorists of deaf youngsters. Two of Alice Kline's children are troubled; one is hyperactive, another developed an ulcer-like stomach condition at age seven. In an interview with...
Brown knows his subject. As a reporter for the Niagara Gazette, he broke the story of the Love Canal disaster, revealing how chemicals buried in an abandoned waterway were leaking into homes and were suspected of causing health problems, from respiratory and liver ailments to birth defects...
...diffuse to be attacked. Instead they trained their guns on a Washington gathering in the Cannon House Office Building. Some moments in the daylong affair were moving. Joanna Hale, 26, representing the Love Canal Homeowners' Association, denounced Hooker Chemical Co. for the chemical waste seepage in Niagara Falls, N.Y., that they say made residents ill. Joyce Bichler, who underwent a hysterectomy at 18 because her mother was given the drug DBS during pregnancy to prevent a miscarriage, declared: "Eli Lilly has given me cancer." She has won a $500,000 damage suit against the drug company...
...slowly sets on beautiful Hong Kong harbor, the shirt-sleeved Friedman credits the crown colony's prosperity to the absence of government controls on business. In gaudy Las Vegas, Friedman expounds on the workings of the market system while standing next to a working roulette wheel. Later, thundering Niagara Falls represents Canada, where an asthmatic American housewife must go to obtain a medicine that Government regulation has banned in the good old U.S.A...