Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When British police last month began making curbside inspections with a "Breathalyser" that measures the alcohol imbibed by a motorist, cries of indignation rang out across the country. Last week the early results of the war on drinking drivers were in, and they were something to lift a glass to...
Notwithstanding its fiery moments, the debate was curiously lopsided; whether by accident or design, there was no white adversary present who could summon the intelligence and articulation to represent a moderate point of view.
The belief that high school driver-education courses produce safer drivers is so sacredly held that insurance companies trim premiums for motorists who have taken them. That gospel was challenged last week by University of California Psychologist Frederick L. McGuire. "There is no evidence," McGuire told a session of the...
McGuire based his claim on a federally supported research project carried out while he was on the medical faculty at the University of Mississippi. He started with two evenly matched groups of 145 drivers; one group learned to drive through driver-education courses; the other had no formal driving instruction...
Died. Margaret Ayer Barnes, 81, playwright and novelist; of a pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass. Bedridden in 1926 after an automobile accident, she scrawled manuscripts while propped up in her hospital bed. Less than four years later, three of her plays (Age of Innocence, Jenny, Dishonored Lady) had run on...