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...those markets, the magazine would eventually have sold to just 15% to 30% of households, against Time Inc.'s expectation of 40% to 60%. Thus the magazine was well below its rate base of 400,000 readers, though advertising sales were close to goals. Said Kelso Sutton, Time Inc.'s group vice president-magazines: "Our business plan depended upon high acceptance by cable systems and individuals. We thought the product would be so compelling that it would develop a new market...
Time Inc. owns the leading U.S. pay-TV network, Home Box Office, and one of the biggest cable-system companies, American Television and Communications Corp. But Sutton doubted that those ties affected cable operators' responses to the magazine. Said he: "That would not matter if the deal was right...
...court in Uniondale, N.Y., last week, Sutton partook of a bittersweet victory. U.S. District Court Judge George C. Pratt ordered the opening of heretofore sealed documents gathered for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by some 20,000 Viet Nam veterans and their relatives against Dow Chemical and four other companies that manufactured Agent Orange. One of the substances present in the herbicide, used in the Viet Nam War to defoliate enemy crops and jungle hiding places, is the dangerous chemical dioxin. The documents reveal that Dow officials had knowledge even before the mid-1960s that exposure to dioxin might cause people...
When the flamethrower on the Navy gunboat burned off foliage along the riverbank of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam in 1967, recalls Robert Sutton, a ship's gunner, "I inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
...Diamond Shamrock Corp. of Dallas, Uniroyal Inc. of Middlebury, Conn., and T.H. Agriculture and Nutrition Co. Inc. of Kansas City. The case, now in pretrial hearings, is not expected to go before a jury until next year. "It's been all cloak and dagger," says ex-Navyman Sutton, "but I think the truth is finally coming out." No doubt, but some truths may continue to prove elusive: while scientific studies have shown that dioxin is fatal to laboratory animals even in minute quantities, its effects on humans are still a matter of considerable debate among experts...