Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact and spilled plutonium, dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h. winds of the dark Arctic winter...
...deputy chief of staff for materiel, moved ahead with search-and-recovery operations. They soon found assorted bomb fragments and debris, including four parachutes that had been stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort to collect as much wreckage as possible for burial. Unless the small amount of radiation is ruled...
Compounding this recipe for hostility between all parties is the difficulty of assessing the legal responsibility for auto accidents. In the six states* that have "comparative negligence" laws, a victim who is partly responsible for a crash can recover a proportionate percentage of his losses. In the other 44 states, unless the victim can prove that the policyholder was entirely at fault-and that he himself was utterly blameless-the company need not pay him a cent. Indeed, the worse the accident-a ten-car chain collision, for example-the more difficult it usually is to pin sole blame...
...much discussed mixed system geared to the U.S. is now being advocated by Law Professors Robert E. Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In their book After Cars Crash, they propose a novel form of auto insurance called "Basic Protection," which would pay benefits more widely and efficiently, yet preserve both private enterprise and the right to file lawsuits for severe injury and economic loss...
...know the hippie scene is to be there. A group of 16 (eight men and eight women) will go to S.F. Friday evening. After a discussion seminar with some people who have been on the scene for some time, we'll crash at a Free U. pad. Saturday we'll work in one of the volunteer agencies. In the early evening, after eating dinner with the Diggers, we will have a seminar meeting with some people prominent in the hippie scene, discussing their thing. Sunday morning we will discuss what we saw and felt. After that, we can depart...