Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems likely to remain, but Loser Couve de Murville is expected to be replaced. Apparently, though, De Gaulle is not overly disappointed with the makeup of the Assembly itself. The opposition will be strong enough to give his government constant trouble but too weak to put it in mortal danger. Besides, if the Assembly gets too rambunctious, the general can always legally dissolve it and call new elections...
...cause changes in the chromosomes in some of the body's cells, with the parallel risk that they might also cause genetic defects if the patient later became a parent. Up to now, such drugs have been used only in the treatment of advanced cancer, so the danger to children has been minimal. But last week, in the journal Science, a team of researchers at the State Uni- versity of New York in Buffalo reported that LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), the favorite magic carpet of psychedelic trippers may produce the same sort of chromosomal damage...
...universities as a whole are in the middle of an industrial revolution.... Higher education, from being a cottage industry, is becoming a large-scale mass-production process. Students are in danger of coming to regard themselves as a new kind of intellectual proletariat, with a new sense of grievance...
...graduate of Harvard Law School how to probate a $5 million estate, and he will hand you an 85 page brief. Ask him what to do about a young mother in danger of losing welfare payments unless she files charges against her lover, and you can expect only an embarrassed grimace. Harvard and most other law schools have long concentrated on "affluence law," neglecting and sometimes ignoring the legal problems of the poor...
Another test case seeks to establish a standard procedure for what the City Health Department calls "the little old lady syndrome." In the past, when a health inspector found an elderly person living alone who did not appear capable of taking care of himself--or who might be a danger to neighbors through carelessness--the inspector usually had him committed to a mental institution for observation...