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NEWS OF MUSIC
BY IRVING LOWENS
star Music Critic


Next Thursday night our
enterprisins Opera Society
Will present the first WASH
ir1gton performance Of Mo-
sart's "Indomeneo." an event
Of considerably more than
local significance.
Although the opera is uni
versally acknowledged to
contain some Of Mozart's
most sublime music, it has
been conspicuously absent
from the stage. The first
American production took
place only In I947, when
Boris Goldovsky mounted q
version Of his own devising-
condensing the plot, reorder-
ing some Of the scene Sc
quences, shortening the reci-
tatiyes and emitting some Of
the arias.
Lest Americans be re.
preached for their provin-
cialism In discovering a Mo-
Fart masterpiece so late, I
hssten to add that the first
English professional per-
formance (in yet q different
versionl took place at
Gyndeb ebourne In 1851.
The Opera Society Of
Washington production is
claimed to be uncut and un-
altered. and II this Is true,
those on hand at Lisner
Auditorium may well be
seeing the first complete
''fdomeneo" Of modern times.
"Idomeneo" Is 50 scarce
that very few Of the stand
ard guides to the opera con-
tain Q synopsis Of the action,
and for the use Of Washing
tons operagoers Q brand
new libretto in italian, con-
taining q brand.new Eng
lish translation by Bliss
Hehert and Constance Mel
len, viii be made available.
Connoisseurs are looking
forward to the three Sched-
uled performances with the
greatest eagerness.
Back Of Its obseurity
The perceptive reader Of
the above lines may, how
ever, have q significant ques-
ton to ask.
II "Idomeneo" is so noble
and impressive Q work, why
have staged performances
been 50 few In number?
The answer Is abSurdly
Stmple-it takes more than
great music to make 9 great
opera.
"Idomeneo" IL flawed on
many counts.
The story, q retelling Of
the Jephtha tale using an
cient Greek characters, Is
ponderous and slow-moving.
The hbretto Is verbose and
sententious. Mozart knew this
and tried desperately to
tighten 1t up, but he was not
successful.
The music utilizes the
operate convention-even in
Mozart's time hopelessly old
fashioned-of Handel'S day,
calling for interminable reci-
tativo secco. OF this. the
great English student Of
Mozartean opera, Edward J.
Dent wrote:
''Recitative Of any kind,
and secco all the more. must
inevitably be boring in the
extreme to audiences which
do not understand Italian. It
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TOMORROW

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
LLOYD GeiSler, conductor. Mckinley
u. g., 1918 pm. and 2:16 pm.
Youth concerts.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor. Francis
Hammond H. O.. Alexandria, $3.50
pm. Carnival Overture, op. 92,
Dyorak: Fantasia on Q Theme BY
Thomas Tails, vaughan Williams;
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Franks,
Op. -2s, r. Strauss; Symphony No. 6
In p minor, op. "A (Pathetiaue)
JACK DAWSON, bass baritone: John
Morisrty, piano. Phillips Gallery
$50 pm. Herr. SO: .du.. Wilt, from
cantata No, 73. Bach: cantata,
Che dite. .Caldara;. Auf dem Ktrch-
hofe, Brahms; Geheimnis.. Brahms;
Alte Liebe. Brahms; Es Schauen die
, Blumen, Brahms; Nicht mehr Zu
dir gu .Rehen, Brahms: Wehe, so
=, Whilst du mich wieder, Brahms:
Chapson Triste, Duparc: Phidyle,
Duparc; Le MANOR de Rosemonde,
Dupare; Voyage Q Paris, Poulenc;
Masurka, Poulenc; Don ouichotte
Q Oulcinee, Ravel.
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FRIDAY

FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB.
Psrticipating artists; Marian Ger
sa9iaEa GrusSniHowsii. vioiin:
Thea Cooper. cello: Msry. Ann Sta.
bile, soprano. Cosmos Club. IL 80
am. Piano Quartet in Z flat. op.
~. Schumann: La mi sola, .Laureola.
o6radors; Al Amor. oSradS21s: Con Con
cabelio mas sutii. o6radors; Chi:
quitita IL ,novia. obradors; street
ssY1SMfPHoNY ORCHESTRA.
Lloyd Gelsler, conductor. North Area
and io:15 am. Tiny tots concerts.
OPERA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON.
assisted by orchestra and chorus.
Paul Galway, conductor. Lisner
auditorium. 8 pm. Repeating Thurs
THE ovRHRToNrs IHs1v CHORUS. Nlehsla.
chestra. Roosevelt Auditorium. $40
pm. Porgy and Bess, 0ershWin.
NEW YORK PRO MUs1CA, Noah
GEesnhers: I1 e.: eonSTctor. nS', paItisipstins H
Us, sopranos; Robert white. counter
tenor; Charles Bressler, TENOR Cor
don Myers. baritone: BrAyton Lewis,
bass; LaNoue Davenport, recorders;
Joseph IadSns. lutte; Msrtha Rlssh- ,
terS and portative orsan. Library Of
Congress, $50 pm. Portions Of q
14th Century Spanish Mass; Anony-
nous 14-century dances; o in Italia.
Bologna; Fenice tu. Bologna: Lux
purpurata, Bologna; 15th-century
English carols; Ave Regina coelorum.
Dufay: Gloria ad modum tubae,
Dufay: Hosts Herodes. Dufay; Bon
Jour, bon mois. Dufay; Craindre vous
vueil. Dufay: Je ne Wis onedues Ia
pareille, Dufay; Je languis en- piteux
martire. Dufay; Vergine bella, Dufay;
Supremum est mortalibus, Dufay.
JOSEPH E. MIRANDA, organ. st. Pat.
rick's Roman Catholic Church. $3.50
pm. Clayierubung, Part g.. Bach;
Fantasia In r minor, K. sos. Mozart;
Antiphon. am black but comely,
Op. 49,. No. 3. .Duprei Prelude and
Pugue in q minor, Op. Z, No. 3,
UNITED STATES NAVY BAND. cemdr.
Charles Brendler, conductor. Soloist:
Don Jacoby, cornet. Departmental
Auditorium. $3.50 pm. Overture to
Candide. Bernstein; Andante Canta-
bile, Tchaikovsky: Liebestraum,
Lisgt: Girl with the Flaxen Hair,
Debussy; Spanish Dance No. ], De
Fallaa Firebird Suite Stravinsky;
DramGtic Essay. C. Williams: Bam-
boula. Coleridge-Taylor: on Wings
Of Song, Mendelssohn: Final Dance,
from Estancia. Ginatera; Ballet Mu-
sic. from william Tell, Rossini.
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PROGRAMS OF THE WEEK
TODAY

IAN PIERCE, tenor: George TrOviIIo,
Tu 10 sal. Torelli: Che fiero costume
latti; Say 10 Irene. from ATLANTA.
Handel; An die Leier. Schubert;
Carnival ToSrdrain: Ne6bie. Respi.
onesin. Tchaikovsky: Poema en-
.forms de caneiones, Turina; Do You
Remember, Leyitzki; Loves Philoso-
hy s.fsass .sr 0ys e csn g Rs sdss IseaRe6 iqe@
me Masked BAH. Verdi: ouando le
.sere al plncido. from Luisa Miller
4ARaARET ToLsoN. piano. Barker
Han: $3.50 pm; and & 40 p.n.
Zach MiHust ' IN 6o- g miner, Incl fash Fssa1:
n r. Bach: Minuet In q, Mozart:
Allegro 0rasioso, Mozart: sonatina
tp c. HAYDN: sonatina in z.
Hsstsoysn; .1 sS1atins a,.tn IL e, .,I:. op; 80:
TSe IWiiid Horseman. schumann: The
Happy Farmer. schumsnn; About
Strange Lands and People. schu-
mann: The Happy Farmer. schu:
mann; About etrange Lands and
seSSSnsaS ssauHsH ne Lts Nssro 'fSs Be-
6uSsy; The Dancing Bear, TSnsman;
Russian Dance. Tansman; Dream,
Tansman: The Warbler. Tansman:
Hunearian Folk Song. Bartok: Folk
Song. Bsrtok; Evening In the Coun-
try, Bartok: Little Joke. Kabalevsky;
Novelette,, .Kabalevsky: Dance on the
Lawn. Kahalevsky: Etude, Kabalev-
sky.
NEW YORK TRIO tFritu Jaboda,
piano: Baehmael WeinstOek, violin;
s pm. Trio IL p fiat. op: il.
Trio In C minor. op. 101, Brahms.
WILLIAM B. MCGOWAN, organ.
Weshington Cathedral, B pm.
Voluntary z, Stanley; When Adam
Fell. Homilius: Sonata No. 2 in o
minor, Mendelssohn; Pieces for Q
Musical Clock. Haydn; Fantasy and
,Fugue IN c minor, Bach; Prelude
ON the Tune, st. COLUMBIA, Milford;
Hommase Q Purcell. Peloquin; Choral
Variations On the Theme Vent Gre
AUDREY NossANHAN, soprano: Charles
.CroWdeT, piano. National Gallery,
5 pm. Ridente 10 calma, K. 152,
Mozart; On moto di gioja. K. $40.
Mozart; L'amero saro costante, from
y Re Pastore, Mozart; Ruhe. meine
seele. r.. Strauss: Morgen, r.
Strauss: Ich TRACE meine Mime.
r. Strauss: VIE sollten wir geheim.
r. Strauss; ouatfo Madrigales ANA
>Reatrice, Hobby; Hermit Songs,
Barber
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TUESDAY

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Loya Gelsler, conductor. North
western II. g., Hyattsville. 10 am.
and 11:1b am. Tiny tots concerts.
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BY BENJAMIN FINE

The esther. Q Pulitzer Prize reporter,
IS sdueotion editor Of the North
American Newspaper AIIiones. oues-
tions Concerning edueotioa end CO.
reeFs may be 0dFsssed to him at
BIS BroweT avenue, Rockville Centre,
N. Y.
Evening star., 1961-02-05
THURSDAY

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor, Soloist:
Toby Saks, cello. Constitution Hall,
2 pm. Youth concert.
OPERA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON,
assisted BY orchestra and chorus.
Auditorium, g pm. Cast: Alexe nder,
Yannl, Raskin, Ferriere, Walnner,
K0lk, Watson, Heeht, M. n. Kaiser,
Ardrey. Idomeneo, Mozart.
Evening star., 1961-02-05
SATURDAY

aH Missionary STyo colleSe. " Tskoms Park,
8 pm. Program not available;
ROGER WILLIAMS, piano. and his
company. Constitution Hall, $40
pm. Program not available.
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KENNEDY
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daughter Caroline, who was
watching him from the balcony
Photographers were unable
to take pictures Of him at the
White House. Reporters were
not allowed outside and had
to watch the arrival from the
windows Of the cabinet room.
Biddle Greets Fanfani
The President did not greet
Italian Prime Minister Amin
tore Fanfani at the North Por-
tico, as is his custom with visit
ing dignitaries. Protocol Chief
Angler Biddle Duke welcomed
Mr.. Fanfani, and ushered him
upstairs to the second floor
study where the President was
to meet him.
AS Mr.. Kennedy left Palm
Beach Assistant Press Secretary
Andrew Hatcher said officially
that Mr.. Kennedy was feeling
fine after his brief Florida
vacation. He said the decision
to use the crane was made yes
terday because it is safer and
to ease the strain of walking
up the plane steps on crutches,
The crutches, prescribed by
DR.. Janet Travell, the Presi-
dents personal physician. lessen
the discomfort from his back
injury when he moves about.
Evening star., 1961-06-12

fantry Brigade at Fort Devens,
Mass. Gen. Yancey will leave
for this post next month.
Report Summarized
The full inveStigative report
was not made public, but a
summary said that Gen. Clarke
concluded that Gen. Walker:
l. I'm q speech before about
200 members and dependents of
his division. made derogatory
remarks of q serious nature
about certain prominent Ameri-
cans, the American press, and
TV industry and certain COM
mentators which linked the per-
sons and institutions with COM
munisn and Communist in
fluence.
2. Failed to heed cautions by
superior officers to refrain from
participating in controversial
activities which were contrary
to long-standing customs Of the
military service and beyond the
prerogatiyes of q senior mill
tary commander"
The Army declined to PIN
point these controversial ac-
tivities.
In releasing the findings, the
Army quoted Gen. Clarke as
saying 'No one can question
Gen. Walkers sincerity Of pur-
pose. but his actions exceeded
the limits Of propriety for an
officer Of the Army"
Gen. Clarke spoke of Gen.
Walkers past military and COM
bat record as commendable.
The Army said it considers
the case closed and plans no
further action.
Gen. Walker holds the Silver
Star and other decorations
from World War II and Korea.
He and the paper have filed
SANDER suits against each
other in the German courts.
During the Investigation,
Gen. Walker has been on duty
as assistant to the deputy chief
Of staff for operations at Army
European Command head
quarters in Heidelberg. He has
not been available to newsmen.
There has been speculation
he would retire if the Army
findings went against him.
With 80 years service behind
him, Gen Walker is eligible to
retire.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
Removal Operations

The recovery of Seabee Legg
proved too complicated fol-
crews at the Idaho site. A call
went out for a special radio
logical unit stationed at the
Army mical Proving
Ground at Dugway, Utah, SOC
miles away. Garnett Rowden
a hard-bitten regular army
first sergeant, was MOO ir
charge of 25 enlisted men who
flew to Idaho Falls on Friday
evening, January 6-three days
after the disaster. Joe Pirkl, q
captain with a scientific back
ground, was officer command
ing the group.
At Idaho Falls, the radio
logical team got a thorough
briefing on the situation inside
Sill. "They gave us a general
orientation of the site and told
us what was expected OF us, ="
Sergt. Rowden related subSe-
quently at Dugway.
Six men went out early
Saturday to make a reconnais-
sance. They found Acc crews
setting up remote television
cameras and putting the
finishing touches on a huge
stretcher rigged at the end oi
a derrick's boom. The reason
for its outlandish size-fully q
feet long and S feet wide-will
become apparent shortly.
! Like a crack drill team, group
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ANTITRUST

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for 1S other product lines tc
follow.
In addition to GE, the de-
partment recently called in
Westinghouse Electric Corp,
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing
Corp, Federal-Pacific Electric
Co. and the TIE Circuit
Breaker Co. ALI were asked to
sign the decree.
All except GE still have the
proposal under advisement.
GE Makes Counter Proposal
GE representatives studied
the plan for more than q week
and made a counter proposal
to refrain from:
Following any plan, program
or course Of action of selling
/. at unreasonably low prices
with the purpose or intent OF
substantially Slppressing or sti-
fling competition or tending to
create a monopoly"
The Justice Departments ne
,gotiators rejected the counter
proposal on the spot.
According to others present
GE representatives said they
could not accept the consent
decree as drafted. They pre-
ferred to take their chances ir
court. where the company could
fare no worse than by submit
ting to the language Of the de-
partment's proposal.
1t was at this point that Mfr
Loevinger warned GEES repre-
Sentatives that they might find
themselves in divestiture pro-
ceedingS.
Mr.. Loevinger neither volun-
teered nor was asked what the
company could be required to
diyest under 0 broadened suit.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
Robertson's Son
Is. Ordained

NORFOLK, Va, June Il
(AP).-Marion Gordon Robert
son, 31-year-old son of United
States Senator Robertson, was
ordained q minister in the
Baptist church here yesterday
Senator Robertson, his wife
and the new minister's wife
watched from a pew in Free
mason Street Baptist Church
as DR.. William l.. Lumpkin,
pastor, conducted the simple
ceremony.
Several ministers and the
deacons of the church filed past
the Rev. Mr.. Robertson as he
kneeled before the altar to lay
hands on his head as a symbol
Of his ordination.
DR.. John Brown, executive
secretary Of the Norfolk Bap-
tist Association, presented a
Bible to the new minister.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
WALKER

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Clarke, commander in chief Of
Army forces in Europe.
The reprimand action had the
approval of President Kennedy,
who ordered the investigation
nearly two months ago. Mr..
Kennedy reviewed the findings.
Tabloid Stirred Probe
The investigation stemmed
from charges published by the
Overseas Weekly, a privately
owned tabloid newspaper wide-
ly read by United States serv-
icemen in Europe.
The paper said that Gen.
Walker used the oath Divisions
troop information program to
subject his troops, to propa-
ganda Of the Birch Society.
1t also said that he told an
American PTA meeting in
Augsburg that Mr.. Truman,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and
former Secretary of State Dean
AcheSon were definitely pink. |"
In the same speech, the paper
said, the 51-year-old General
said so per cent of the Ameri-
can press and radio-TV indus
try are Communist. And it al
legged he described as "con-
firmed Communists" Edward
R. Murrow. now director of the
United States Information
Agency, and Columnist Walter
Lipmann and commentator Eric
Sevareid.
Gen. Walker denied the pa
per's charges and called the
Overseas Weekly unscrupulous.
President Kennedy then or
dered an inquiry.
Ruling Not Penalty"
The Army said that admin
istrative admonitions are not
intended as punishment or
penalty. but are corrective
measures more analogous to
instruction"
However, the Army said the
significance of an admonition
"in this particular case is great
ly increased by public an
nouncement that such action is
being taken"
At the time MIR. Kennedy or
dered the investigation in mid
April, Gen. Walker was re-
lieved as commander of the
oath Division and assigned to
a staff post at Army headquar-
ters in Heidelberg.
He had been scheduled, be-
fore the storm broke, to take
command of the 9th Corps in
Texas in August.
The Army said today this job
will be taken by Mai. Gen.
Thomas r. Yancey, now COM
manding general of the I'd In
Evening star., 1961-06-12

! looking for: radiogold (Au-l9S)
which can be created in only
one way-by bombarding ordi-
nary gold with neutronS from
an atomic chain reaction.
They did the same thing
with a piece of stainless steel
and a watchband taken from
the victims. These showed
neutron induced radioactivity
in chromium-51 and cobalt-5S,
all of which helped fill in the
picture they were attempting
to draw.
They tried to embellish the
picture further with radio ac-
tive sodium-24 from the body
fluids of the victims, but could
not find it. Yet If there had
been neutron bombardment,
Sodium-24 must have been Gre
ated in the blood. How could
this be explained?
The chemists pondered this
and finally decided they had
not been given blood samples
soon enough. Sodium-24 has q
short "half-life" and disappears
rapidly.
Strontium Is Clincher
Then they found some stron-
tunnel in particulate-matter
sample. This has even a shorter
half-life than Sodium-24. but
there was enough dust around
so that not all the strontium
had time to decay. The chemist
detectives were sure Of this as
additional proof of recent
criticality in the reactor. No
amount of strontium-91 created
prior to Christmas would still
be detachable in mid-January.
@. E. D.
"Any one single piece Of that
evidence is unequivocal," Mr..
Sill said. "All together they are
incontrovertibles."
The picture drawn of the
scene inside Sill at 9 pm. ON
January 3 was one of an
instant of hell. There must
have been q ghostly blue-white
flash in which millions of
kilowattS of energy were re-
leased in the briefest fraction
of a second. TrillionS of minute
but deadly neutrons flashed
through the room like invisible
machine-gun bullets. Then
there was a steam explosion,
then Silence-except tor the
means of one half-conscious
man, lying helpless and alone
in a cluttered room in a desert
in Idaho.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
Chemical Detectives

Long before. Seabee Legg'S
body was recovered, it was be-
lieved that the incident had
been caused by a true "nuclear
excuSion"-a runaway chain re-
action-and not merely by
some chemical reaction inside
the reactor.
AS mentioned above, radio
activity could have been spewed
out in the form of fission frag-
ments even If only a steam ex-
plosion had occurred. The ra-
dioactive iodine-131 detected
on the desert nearby could be
accounted for thus. So could
the barium-140 and zirconium-
95 found on peoples shoes.
Chemists at the Idaho site
set out to proye-not just sur
mise-that there had been an
excursion. They did it with
the wedding ring of one of the
victims.
The ring was radioactive,
but it was not known whether
this was from participate mat
ter blown into it by the blast,
or from induced radioactivity.
The ring could not be buffed
down to get rid of what was
obviously contamination. So
the chemists turned to other
means.
Chemist Claude Sill described
the operation. I'VE cut about
a one-tenth segment out of the
ring, and removed a 1884 inch
layer from the outside" he
said. Then we dissolved the
remaining gold in acid, to get
rid of alloy materials in the
ring, and then reconstructed the
gold. Then we took it back
to the spectrometer."
This electronic device show
ed the chemist what he was
Evening star., 1961-06-12
GENEVA
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forces in substantial numbers
are in close proximity"
Mr.. Gromyko protested Mr..
Harriman's reading, saying the
report was addressed to the
fighting forces in Laos and not
to the conference.
Lord Home, chairman for the
day, defended Mr.. Harriman's
right to read it.
The commission said repre-
sentatives of the fighting forces
had agreed it should examine
the situation on the spot. Un-
til now, pro-Communist forces
had insisted it would be diff
cut to guarantee the safety OF
truce teams.
The commission suggested
that, to begin with, it ought
to have a look at Kieucacham
Ban Bin Heup, Padong, Tche-
por1e, Phalane land also some
other points,"
Inspections Necessary
1t intends to visit first one
place suggested by representa-
tives of the Royal Laotian gov
ernment and one proposed by
the neutralists and pro-Com-
muniStS.
Mr.. Hartman pointed out
that the commission finds
these visits necessary to main
tain the cease fire and to re-
port more accurately the sit
uation in the field"
IF, indeed, an effective
cease fire is not maintained,
Ihe said, my delegation will
Evening star., 1961-06-12

men. two of them fathers, one
about to be.
In addition to Specialist
ByrneS, they were Army Spe-
cialiSt Fourth Glass Richard L.
Mckinley, q, of Kenton, Ohio,
and Navy Seabee ((Construc-
ton Electrician First Glass;
Richard C. Legg. 26. of Ros-
common, Mich.
Later, Specialist Mckinley
proved to be the man on the
floor, and Seabee Legg the man
pinned to the ceiling. The Sec
ond body was brought out on
Wednesday, January 4, and the
last one was not removed until
Tuesday afternoon, January
10. the seventh day after the
accident.
The remains of Byrnes, at
the decontamination center,
showed tremendously high ra-
dioactivity-4O0 to 50Or per
hour from the unclothed body
most of it from participate
matter" (small specks of ra-
dioactive material blown into
the body by the force of the
runaway reactor's blast).
1t was not yet known whether
induced radioactivity" was in
the picture. This would take
considerable detective work to
determine.
Particulate matter can be-
come radioactive in the normal
functioning of a reactor. Fis-
sion products from the core, If
blown outside by an explosion,
are classed as participate mat
ter. But If the body itself shows
signs of radioactiyity, this
could come only from neutrons.
And neutrons, in such a case as
this, can come only from an
atomic reaction of unexpected
suddenness.
Remains Cool off
But no matter what caused
the body's radioactivity, it ex-
listed. The remains were packed
in ice, partly to preserve them
and partly because the melt
water from the ice would help
to decontaminate the body by
washing away participate mat
ter. The clothing, even more
radioactive than the cadaver,
was taken away to be disposed
of as "medium-level waste"
The bodies of Mckinley and
Legg, when recovered, were
treated in a similar way. The
melt-water from the ice washed
away so much Of the radiation
that eventually meters showed
only" to 40r, per hour, three
weeks after the accident. The
bodies were deemed safe to turn
over to next-of-kin for burial,
but strictly on q sealed-casket
basis with A-inch Of lead
Sheathing the interior.