Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One danger in launching a trial bal loon is that the balloonist may get caught up in the mooring cables and carried aloft. Just that sort of aerial accident befell Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and his Bulgarian allies last week.
"There is only one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." In other words, what is it that makes life worth living? Religion's answer to that question today is still powerful, but far more muted than it used to be. Most men take their...
Sir: I read of the tragic accident of the Oriskany [Nov. 4] with tears in my eyes. Then I turned to the cover story on the presidency, and when I had finished reading it, there were still tears in my eyes-not because I thought you were unnecessarily harsh with...
When it comes to the railroads, the task may not be so easy. The unpredictable, accident-prone trains of the Argentine are run by a force that includes a reported 40,000 featherbedders. Warning Ongania in advance about any move to change their work conditions, 173,000 trainmen walked off...
Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is...