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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday an NRC official was calling the plant failure "one of the most serious nuclear accidents to occur in the U.S." Nevertheless, at a jammed press conference in Hershey, an uncomfortable Herbein still contended: "We didn't injure anybody. We didn't overexpose anybody. We didn't kill a single soul. The release of radioactivity off-site was minimal." He said only 15 employees had even been exposed to enough radiation to require them to take showers and discard the clothes they had worn at the time of the accident. His biggest worry seemed to be what to do with...
...debris upon hitting the ground water, releasing a radioactive cloud into the air. As the final precaution, the reactor and primary loop are shielded by a thick concrete containment dome, which should prevent the venting of any radioactivity into the atmosphere-as long as a meltdown does not occur and if there are no other mishaps or blunders. Obviously, at Three Mile Island, these fail-safe systems somehow failed...
...biggest athletic achievement of the Florida trip did not occur on the baseball diamond, I'm told. Seems that Brown bagged a 137-yd. hole-in-one on the par-three twelfth at the University of South Florida course. "I was a little upset, because I aimed for the right side of the cup and it went in the left," said Brown. 1st Game: Harvard AB R H BI Kelley, 2b 5 0 1 0 Santos-Buch, cf 3 0 1 0 Bowles, pr 0 1 0 0 Blood, cf 0 0 0 0 Stenhouse...
...White House breakfast last week and talked worriedly about the economy. Carter confessed to the Congressmen that he was not very hopeful about slowing inflation. The reason: the U.S. economy is showing such unexpected strength that the recession predicted for this year by many economists may not occur until later. Presidential aides cited figures indicating that the economy grew at a robust annual rate of 6.9% in the final quarter of last year, pretax corporate earnings soared at an annual rate of 26.4% over the year before, and unemployment dropped to 5.7%, its lowest level in 4½ years...
Such scenes may not occur in Wall Street law firms, but they might make a movie, perhaps even a high-class, low-Nielsen TV show. It is a pity that Osborn did not find enough that is human about major league law firms to make his book something more. -Evan Thomas