Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of radioactive stockpiles must be controlled by fool-proof regulation, two Harvard professors told the state legislative committee on public health yesterday. Harold A. Thomas, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering declared it the duty of the State Health Department to evaluate the current danger of radioactivity, and to regulate atomic substances if necessary...
...general alarm, rushed to dress. Gathering their life jackets, they streamed toward emergency boat stations. Some, like the shirtless man who stopped to put on a necktie, were momentarily panicky, but they were soon calmed by assurances from Captain Frank S. Siwik, 50, that there was no great danger. Siwik, master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped extra carbon dioxide fire extinguishers). Siwik kept his ship's prow stuffed into the tanker...
...Salisbury Bar Council in emergency meeting condemned ten encroachments on political liberty in one of the bills. The Federation's top clergymen, including the Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury, wrote a joint letter declaring: "We believe that no emergency or danger of emergency can justify injustice...
...Keys, answered yes in Eat Well and Stay Well (Doubleday; $3.95), addressed to laymen as well as doctors. Although he insists that coronary disease and early deaths from heart attacks undoubtedly have many causes, Dr. Keys reasons that an excess of cholesterol in the blood is almost certainly a danger signal. Also, there is evidence suggesting that high-fat meals increase the danger of blood clots, commonest cause of heart attacks...
Claiming that many Southern newspapers "can work for justice only in a negative way," Johnson explained that an outright stand on the segregation issue would result in a loss of circulation and advertising revenue, and might put a paper in danger of folding...