Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In recent months, the board has rebuked railroads for an accident rate that has jumped 71% in six years. Applying to a railroad accident the sophisticated techniques used to determine the causes of plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman...
Man has tended to ignore the fact that he is utterly dependent on the biosphere: a vast web of interacting processes and organisms that form the rhythmic cycles and food chains in which one part of the living environment feeds on another. The biosphere is no immutable feature of the...
...Betty Legg, 34, was married to an Iraan, Texas, oilfield worker who carried two $20,000 life insurance policies that paid double indemnity in case of accidental death. When he died-accidentally, she said-she sued the insurance companies for the double payoff. The companies protested that the death was hardly accidental, since it was caused by a bullet fired from a gun by Mrs. Legg. What's more, they told a Texas jury, she had been charged with murder and was awaiting trial. Mrs. Legg said it was indeed an accident. She had surprised her husband...
For Piet Hanema alone, the chase into neighborly beds comes close to the course of tragedy. Unlike the others he is hounded not only by lust, curiosity and boredom but by a terrible sense of time fleeing. He is haunted by the past by shepherds paralyzed in webs of lead...
* Who died in an auto accident last year at the age of 25.