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...fears in Silver Bay of a permanent plant shutdown (which local physicians blame for a flurry of marriage breakups and a rise in prescriptions for tranquilizers) to the $7 million that Duluth had to pay for a filtration plant when the city's drinking water was found to contain the asbestos-like fibers. Company spokesmen continue to maintain that the new basin is "not necessary" and that it was built "only because we were told to do it." But of course the whole problem might have been avoided if the lake had never been viewed as a convenient dump...
Once Church gets going on a topic, a mere cover story cannot always contain his talent and energy, so he indulges a longtime passion for satire and verse. His Man of the Year story in January produced an Ayatullah Khomeini limerick ("too indecorous to quote," he says), and this month's Reagan cover story yielded a parody of an all-purpose campaign-trail press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong...
...advice of his international team of physicians, the cancer-ridden Shah, 60, was scheduled to undergo major surgery this week: the removal of an inflamed and enlarged spleen that doctors believe may contain a tumor. The former monarch, whose gall bladder was removed at a New York City hospital last October, suffers from a number of other grave ailments, including anemia, that may be related to B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system...
British and Irish archaeologists could scarcely contain their excitement over the discovery. Said James Graham-Camp bell, a medievalist at the University of London: "Nothing of this quality and importance has been found in Ireland in this century." Although it will take a year to restore the chalice, which was caked with a greenish mold, experts are already comparing it to the famed Ardagh chalice, discovered in 1868 in County Limerick and often described as the most beautiful in the world...
DIED. Manlio Brosio, 82, Italian diplomat who, as Secretary-General of NATO from 1964 to 1971, helped contain the damage of Charles de Gaulle's exit from the alliance; in Turin, Italy. A leader of Italy's small, right-of-center Liberal Party, Brosio helped coordinate the anti-Fascist resistance in World War II, later served as Defense Minister and envoy to Moscow, London, Washington and Paris...