SUBSCRIBERS

1.) We deeply mourn the death of subscriber William Loeb who many times reprinted editorials and other items from this newsletter in the New Hampshire Manchester Union Leader. In his last letter to us, he explained that newspaper publishers have no control over the Parade Sunday supplement and thought ours was the right answer to their plutonium lie.

2.) Subscriber Dr Leo Yaffe, professor of chemistry at McGill University, Montreal, and president of the Chemical Institute of Canada, has won the coveted American Chemical Society Award for Nuclear Chemistry for 1982. Congratulations!

3.) The Midnight Economist, alias subscriber William R. Allen, professor of economics at the U. of Calif. at Los Angeles, strikes again, this time in a 295-page book of selected short broadcasts, with a preface by Milton Friedman (Midnight Economist, Playboy Press, $13.50). This is an educating, entertaining, exhilarating book, from subjects like the preservation of whales to the reason why "there's no such thing as an uncoerced bad deal."

4.) Subscriber Marshall Bruce, M.D., chewed us out about iodine 131. Enough of it (30 to 40 mCi) will destroy the thyroid gland; but it is a myth that it will cause cancer of the thyroid.

5.) Subscriber Petr Beckmann (he subscribes to keep tabs on the bulk mail boys) was severely reprimanded by the publisher, editor, and printer of this newsletter for sloppy typesetting. The address for information on Amory Lovins' tactics in palming himself off as a scientist [AtE Oct. 81] is Mark Hugo, Nebraska Voice of Energy, 852 S. 35 Ave (repeat: 852 South thirty-fifth Avenue!), Omaha, NE 68105, tel. (402) 346-6572. And this time it was proof-read by the chief advertising officer, computer programmer and circulation manager.

6.) That same subscriber has an article "Nuclear Malpractice on Gofman, Wald, Caldicott, and other doctors opposed to health in the October issue of the American Spectator ($2 from Box 1969, Bloomington, IN 47402).