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...side. Distillers, however, did tacitly admit some moral responsibility. The company offered to pay an average $36,000 per child on condition that the suits were withdrawn and the offer accepted as final. In 1969 Distillers proposed to settle on all parents of thalidomide children a lump...
...decline, little money at all was appearing. But at least one industry--the Polaroid Corporation--was hardly affected by the recession and its president. Edwin H. Land, still had plenty of money on hand. So much so that at Commencement in June 1968. Land gave the University an anonymous lump-sum donation of $12.6 million earmarked specifically for the construction of an Undergraduate Science Center. With the addition of the interest accruing on Land's gift plus another miscellaneous $4 million in contributions, the Science Center was ready to become a reality. In the frenzied elation of the times...
...workers and their families is almost totally company financed; an appendectomy costs about $2. Workers can use the company gym and playing field and can shop in the company-operated discount store. Most important, shipyard employees are virtually assured of a job until retirement, and then receive a one-lump severance payment, averaging $20,000 for 30 years' service...
...decline, little money at all was appearing. But at least one industry--the Polaroid Corporation--was hardly affected by the recession and its president, Edwin H. Land, still had plenty of money on hand. So much so that at Commencement in June 1968. Land gave the University an anonymous lump-sum donation of $12.6 million dollars earmarked specifically for the construction of an Undergraduate Science Center. With the addition of the interest accruing on Land's gift plus another miscellaneous $4 million in contributions, the Science Center was ready to become a reality. In the frenzied elation of the times...
...couple of G.I.s popping open beer cans with Mama-san and her whores. Through the bead curtain, a hand lobs a lump of steel. Thump and roll. "Grenade!" Soldier scoops it up, hesitates in stupid disbelief. FLASH! BLAM! So begins-and 140 minutes later, in an almost exact replay, so ends-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Between these two unanswerable exclamation points, Playwright David Rabe strings the lifeline of the soldier, Pavlo; then on that cord he attempts to hang what he sees as the rags of national honor, bloodied by the Viet...