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...This was once a nice, typical California town," says Lorraine Ross of San Jose, one of 266 plaintiffs in a multi-million-dollar suit against the local plant of the Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. She and her neighbors are charging Fairchild with negligent contamination of a public well serving 700 residents. They are also holding the company responsible for seven deaths in the past three years, as well as a number of miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from...
...long night in which he and top advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units of the National Guard in Mississippi. But the marshals were besieged by angry...
Reported by John Dunn/Melbourne and Ross H. Munro/Washington
Last week Ross pushed through a full-scale management shake-up at Atari. Previously separate home-computer and video-game divisions were combined, and three new groups were formed to handle marketing and distribution, product development and manufacturing. Said one former Atari insider: "I'd say it is a desperation move." Atari Chairman Raymond Kassar, 55, survived, but it is unclear how much authority he will have...
This is still Superman, of course, who is no more subject to mid-life crises than he is to dandruff. If he is made to turn sour, there must be a reason. Enter a triad of villains-Megamogul Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), his ugly, scheming sister Vera (Annie Ross) and his "psychic nutritionist," the alluring Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson)-and one nebbishy computer genius gone astray. His name is Gus Gorman, and since he is played by Richard Pryor, two things are certain: Gus will be on Superman's side in time for the climax, and the film will...