Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia University's School of Medicine, "patients are probably better off not knowing they are going to die of Huntington's chorea or multiple sclerosis 15 or 20 years from...
Peanuts today provide a livelihood to 60,000 farmers on 1.6 million acres scattered through such states as Texas. Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia -and above all, Georgia. The peanut plant is hardy enough not to require intense care, but it grows best in sandy soil. Georgia has that, and its farmers seem to have a natural flair for peanuts; anyway, the state produces almost 44% of the total U.S. crop...
Between the 24th and the 26th of February, 1972, 3.72 inches of rain fell on Logan County, West Virginia--not unusual as the state climatologist would later testify. But it was enough, because there were no spillways built into the dam. On the morning of the 26th, Steve Dasovich, head of operations at the Buffalo mine, sent bulldozers to relieve pressure on the dam. It was too late for that, though. When they got to the dam a little before 7 a.m., it was gone. And 21 million cubic feet of water and God knows how many tons...
...fault because of "prior use and tradition," Stern annihilated that theory by showing that other Pittston dams in the area were adequately engineered, built of proper material and with spillways. But first he had to penetrate Pittston's "corporate veil," to prove that the Buffalo Mining Company, a West Virginia corporation, was in fact a subsidiary of Pittston, a New York firm. In this manner, Stern was able to get the case into federal court instead of the corrupt Logan County courts where the full pressure of the coal company could be brought to bear. One of his biggest obstacles...
Still, these minor defects do not mar his skills as a lawyer or the service he did the people of Buffalo Creek. Still, four years later unsafe gob piles periodically overflow in back hollows of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are conscientiously disregarded by company officials and state inspectors. The people of Buffalo Creek are still trying to put their lives back together; some still live in the temporary housing the government moved in after the flood. From Stern's account, for the people of Buffalo Creek and the Pittston Company it all came down to one question...