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...state discoved the TCE levels. However, the plaintiffs--headed by a mother of three, Anne Anderson--claim that the damage had already been done. Six children in one six-block area of Woburn had been diagnosed with childhood leukemia in the five years before 1979, said Dr. John Truman of Massachusetts General Hospital, who treated all six Woburn children for the disease...
Under normal conditions, only four children out of 100,000 develop childhood leukemia each year, Truman said...
...many words, that this nation's new frontier had to be the task of becoming a great world power. We were, of course, that and more by the time World War II ended. Presidential Science Adviser Vannevar Bush described the logical progression in a report to Harry Truman, "Science--The Endless Frontier." The U.S., through research and its rapid application to the lives of people, would conquer other realms. There were those stars that the quirky European philosopher Paracelsus had dreamed of dominating. Going into space was the obligation of America, an absolute writ of being--and staying--free...
Critics, social and literary, have scrutinized Kerouac for the questionable quality of his work (Truman Capote once said of Kerouac's prose, "this isn't writing, this is typewriting"), his political conservatism and his overt sexism. But the movie sheds little light, favorable or negative, on any of the juicier topics...
...many of us wound up in one or another of the armed forces for the duration. Some were killed and wounded in the service of their country; I remain convinced that many more would have died, including thousands of other Americans and Japanese, had not President Truman approved the dropping of the atom bomb which brought the war to a half...