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Reason for this reassuring ratio is that no other industry spends nearly so much time or money playing it safe. The planes themselves are built to such exacting standards that any big multiengined plane can easily climb away from the ground with one engine out, cruise on even less power, and land safely-as a Pan Am 707 did last year-with half a wing burned away. If private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots...
...more than fear," says Jeremiah Dempsey, general manager of Ireland's Aer Lingus. The other side of the equation is that, as planes become safer, more people will become less fearful and will fly. Since 1962, the proportion of Americans who have been up in a plane has climbed from 33% to 38% . But as more people fly, the casualty toll will climb too-unless the one-in-a-million chance of accident can be cut still lower...
...first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest of the team three days after he became the mountain's 29th victim; in Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland...
When thieves in Atlanta climb telephone poles to steal $5,000 worth of copper wire and when the government of Yugoslavia decides to reopen a copper mine that has been idle since the Middle Ages, it is a pretty good indication that there is a worldwide shortage of the metal. It was in recognition of that shortage that the U.S. Department of Commerce, trying to make sure that sufficient copper is available for Viet Nam needs, this month began requiring domestic producers to set aside 10%, instead of 7%, of their monthly production for the use of defense contractors. Warning...
...Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for the sporty Giulia GT model, for instance, shows a father strapping on a crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto market. The company, while a distant second to mass-producing Fiat, last year turned out 60,262 cars, an 8% increase over...