Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carrying on the night of her death would have demonstrated the company's carelessness. Lawyer Gerald Spence claimed in court that Silkwood wanted to "tell the public" that a startling 40 Ibs. of plutonium was missing from the plant. Spence also said she had X rays of fuel rods that had been retouched by the company to conceal faulty seals. Her point: a defective rod could cause a catastrophic accident. The family also intends to call former company employees, including a plant manager, to testify to these and other mishandlings of the fuel. The witnesses are expected to tell...
...Warriors' sin may lie not in its content so much as in the way it attracts crowds like a lightning rod. It is not particularly violent, and what violence there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors...
...mind boggling. You can have a show that reaches 14 million or 15 million households, and it may be ranked in the top 40. Somehow or other, it's written up as a potential miss, which is something I find rather extraordinary. But television is like a lightning rod; I don't think it's any more competitive than it's been. It just may appear that way outwardly...
...courts have ruled that unmarried cohabitants have the right to bring such an action, and 1,000 or so similar cases have already been filed in the state, including suits by the onetime great and good friends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Comedian Flip Wilson. Actor Rod Steiger found himself sued for $2.4 million by Sherry Nelson, his estranged wife. She is arguing that she is entitled to half of his earnings, including those in the four years they lived together before they were married. Even more bewildering is the suit, now being considered in New York State, brought...
Wertlieb and Drs. Sultan Mohiuddin, Bruce Nadler and Michael Mamakos toiled for six hours. They removed damaged tissue from both stump and leg (including nearly 5 in. of bone), inserted a 15-in. stainless steel rod into the thigh bone as a support, then reconnected an artery and two veins. Heartened by the surgery's initial success, an exultant Wertlieb said after the operation: "It was a New Year's Eve high without a drink...