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Drawing on his experience as an investigative reporter. Rashke carries the reader though the early years of Silkwood's life, the months she spent at Kerr-McGee, the FBI and Senate hearings that followed her death, and ultimately the battle in federal court. He describes her married and personal life, her use of prescribed quaaludes as a sedative, and her leading role in the fight for union represenation at Kerr-McGee's Cimarron plant. All of these factors become important later, when Rashke examines company and FBI portrayals of Silkwood as an emotionally disturbed, sexually promiscuous drug addict, who poisoned...
Rashke sheds much new light on the Silkwood case, providing a clear and convincing agrement for further investigation. It is unfortunate that the forces the reader to wade through pages of extraneous detail and occasional highly technical descriptions. It is a tragedy that he gave the book the name he did. A hundred pages shorter with a title less bold sensational, his book might be read by those who mattered. As it is, it will probably be read only by those who are already converts to the Silkwood name...
...When somebody comes to us and starts advocating shooting people, it's a natural reaction: the guy's either a nut or a federal agent." Hinckley was a voracious reader of newspapers, so it is logical that his affiliation with the Nazis began in early 1978: it was then that a spate of national news stories appeared about the National Socialists, mostly involving their planned marches through the heavily Jewish community of Skokie...
DIED. DeWitt Wallace, 91, founder and longtime editor of Reader's Digest, the most successful monthly in the world; of pneumonia; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (see PRESS...
There is no story that cannot be condensed, said DeWitt Wallace, and he spent a lifetime proving it. When he died of pneumonia last week, at the age of 91. Reader's Digest, the magazine he founded in 1922, was the most successful monthly in the world, published in 16 languages with a global circulation of more than 30 million and an estimated readership of 100 million. For him, shorter really was better, and when he was asked what he wanted as an epitaph, he said, briefly: "The final condensation...