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...dozen plants spread along a 30-mile section known locally as Chemical Valley are still "the smell of meat and potatoes." That is because these factories pay the wages of 10,000 people in a state that suffers the highest unemployment rate in the nation (16%). Says Bob Harbert, 36, a cab driver in Nitro, W. Va. (named for a plant that produced nitroglycerin during World War I): "Jobs are scarce here. Nobody thinks about the dangers. If something's going to happen, it's going to happen...
...next day. Philip hung up without giving the call much thought. Still, the man had a German accent. Was it possible? It was indeed. The following day the Chinese freed Richard Fecteau after 19 years in prison; they also released a girl from Palo Alto, Calif., named Mary Ann Harbert, who was thought to have drowned off the coast of China almost four years...
...Mary Ann Harbert, 26, on the other hand, was not on any U.S. mission. She was aboard a pleasure yacht with a companion, Gerald McLaughlin, when the craft disappeared near Hong Kong in 1968, apparently sunk in a storm. Even Mary Ann's family gave her up for dead. In fact, the yacht had drifted into Chinese waters 15 miles south of Hong Kong. The Chinese, ever alert for prowlers, took the two prisoner, jailed them without charges and elected not to tell anybody about it. McLaughlin "behaved badly," according to his captors, and killed himself...
...Paul, Detroit Golf Pro Melvin ("Chick") Harbert backed up his deadly approach shots with a deft touch on the greens and took the P.G.A. championship from Defender Walter Burkemo...
...suffering from a malady reportedly of malignant nature . . . The Associated Press Poll of the Baseball Writers' Association of America predicted that the World Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary, the St. Louis Cardinals, bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns. . . Chick Harbert fired a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia...