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Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Globe's Mystery | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...doctors may be right. James Andrews, 39, describes in detail his three-year history of strange illnesses. But the closest he has ever been to the herbicide is 50 yards from a Ranger station where, he says, "I was told they had two cans of it." Mrs. Shoecraft is convinced that her phone is being tapped, her mail opened, her every movement watched by lurking spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Globe's Mystery | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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