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...more than a decade outraged environmentalists have marched countless companies into court on charges that they are polluting nature. But a corporation has turned the tables and sued the environmentalists for libel. One year ago, Rick Webb, 31, coordinator of West Virginia Mountain Stream Monitors Project, an environmental group, charged in his sporadically produced newsletter that the strip-mine operation of the D.L.M. Coal Corp. of Buckhannon, W. Va., had "destroyed" seven miles of trout streams on the Buckhannon River as a result of sulfuric acid and iron poisoning. Webb's complaint helped result in a federal inspection...
Though firms normally are reluctant to challenge such allegations in court because the cases can result in bad publicity, D.L.M. decided to fight. Last month it filed a $200,000 libel suit charging that Webb's account was "totally false and untrue, defamatory and libelous, intentionally and maliciously published...
...Webb claims he is not dismayed by the suit, saying, "It has spotlighted the problem better than we ever could have done." Some businessmen, though, feel that the case will have a sobering effect on environmental activists...
...almost 30 years of experimentation before he found methods that produced what he wanted, including an iridescent glass that he called Favrile (from the old English word fabrile, of a craftsman) and for which he applied for a patent. Others, including John La Farge in the U.S. and Thomas Webb in England, were working along the same lines, but apparently Tiffany got there first...
...door. There are some fine passes at old favorites (My Shining Hour, More Than You Know); some comfortable negotiating with contemporary material, including New York, New York, Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are (pay a little attention here, Billy); and, astonishingly, a beautiful rendition of Jimmy Webb's Mac Arthur Park, which Sinatra has built up simply by scaling down the psychedelic reveries (imagine him singing "Someone left the cake out in the rain") and letting a shimmering love song stand plain and perfect. The third record of the set is a Gordon Jenkins orchestral fantasia...