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...scientist, he knows that fission products from megaton* explosions rise into the stratosphere and circulate round the earth for years. Most threatening of them is strontium 90, whose long half-life (28 years) keeps it potent during its stratospheric circling, and whose habit of lodging for keeps in human bone makes it a probable cause of leukemia and bone cancer...
These 1,000,000 people will have died ten or 20 or 30 years earlier than their normal life span because the radiation has produced bone cancer, leukemia or some other disease. I estimate also that these bomb tests will cause the birth of 200,000 seriously defective children in the next generation...
...suspects also that increased radiation may cause increased bone cancer...
...show opened with the familiarly quiet voice: "This is Ed Murrow. Listen to an informer now in hiding, afraid he will be found and killed." With that, CBS radio last week told in the bone-chilling words of its participants The Galíndez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror. The skillfully fleshed-out version of the story, first revealed by TIME and LIFE, made an impressive documentary-in-sound-so impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque...
...size of the Local's coffers and the salaries of its officers and staff are a bone of contention for many prospective members. HUERA dues are only 25 cents per month, while Local 254 charges its members $2.50 monthly. "We'd have to get a lot back from the AFL to make up for what we would be losing," says HUERA Treasurer Standing...