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...severity of the head-injury problem is increasing with spreading industrialization. Accidents have become the leading cause of death among Americans aged one to 37, and head injuries are among the commonest and deadliest of all accidents. They cause at least 15,000 U.S. deaths each year, and, are suspected of causing many more, notably in auto accidents where there are multiple injuries...
...What caused the disaster, worst in U.S. missile history, was officially a mystery. The likeliest theory is that a diesel generator had somehow switched on in the third level, throwing a spark into the volatile atmosphere where pipe fitters were working on the hydraulic system. Thus the Titan II, deadliest and most dependable missile in the U.S. arsenal, accidentally claimed its first victims...
From the suburbs of Saigon to the rain forests around Danang, the Commu nists mounted a savage series of am bushes that snatched away the initiative from the government forces and killed more than 1,000 South Vietnamese troops. The deadliest assaults came in the Red-rife Central Highlands, with the Viet Cong attacking in battalion and even regiment strength as they swept down from the craggy Annamite chain...
Space is notoriously dangerous for astronauts, but the first astronauts who return from the moon or Mars may be a danger to all life on earth. The exotic microorganisms that they bring with them may become man's deadliest ene mies, warns a panel of eminent scientists headed by Biologist Allan...
...Lancefield findings to the control of rheumatic fever-and, consequently, to the prevention of countless cases of mitral-valve damage. Dr. Lancefield's latest work has been devoted to pinning down the kinds of strep, and the nature of their poisons involved in glomerulonephritis-one of the commonest, deadliest and most baffling of kidney diseases (TIME, July...