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...dizzy and nauseated. Sighting a sign reading MOTORIST AID CALL BOX, O'Rourke braked to a stop and followed the simple instructions on the box. Then she lost consciousness. Minutes later, a rescue unit arrived and rushed the family to a nearby hospital, where doctors treated them for carbon-monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty muffler...
Thousands of Americans are already suffering the grim consequences of excessive exposure to such chemicals as asbestos, vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can-and too often do-cause metabolic disorders, birth defects or even cancer. But now there is hope that many others may be spared such agonies in the future. Calling it "one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation to come out of Congress," President Ford last week signed into law a bill that requires premarket testing of new chemicals...
Toxicologists have already worked on phosgene, herbicides and pesticides, and carbon tetrachloride, at least 16 metals and many of their compounds -even the paint on pencils that might have been used as swizzle sticks. For a few days nickel carbonyl (a versatile industrial chemical) was a prime suspect, but the first laboratory tests proved useless because of contamination. Some unofficial observers speculated that diazomethane, a gas used in making plastics, might have been spread around in some mysterious...
...will. Since his death, on April 5 in a jet ambulance over Texas, at least 36 purported Hughes wills have surfaced, but none of them appears to be genuine. Summa conducted a worldwide search but failed to turn up a signed document. The search did, however, yield an unsigned carbon of a 1954 will, written at the time Hughes set up the medical institute and transferred to it the ownership of Hughes Aircraft, then worth about $250 million in net assets. The strategy of the Summa people seems to be to present this carbon copy to a probate court...
...neither the Summa carbon nor the Mormon will is accepted by a court as authentic, Hughes' estate will be divided among his next of kin; the chief benefactor would be Hughes' only surviving aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, 85, a Houston widow who is William's mother. Even after taxes, the Lummises would probably collect about $300 million apiece. Understandably, the family is eager to have Howard's last place of U.S. residence declared to be Nevada, since it has no state inheritance tax. Texas and California, which have such taxes, are claiming...