Sickened by U.S. Nuclear Program, Communities Turn to Congress for Aid
When Diane Scheig’s father, Bill, came home from work at the Mallinckrodt factory in St. Louis, he would undress in the garage and hand his clothes to her mother to be washed immediately, not daring to leave the house with the residue to contaminate his work. Mr. Scheig, an ironworker who helped build the city’s…