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...which holds that if anything can possibly go wrong, it will. Back in the early 1950s, a routine inventory revealed that a U.S. A-bomb was missing, and no amount of searching succeeded in locating it. As the military sweated, a senior officer happened to visit a dump on a military base. He strolled between piles of discarded A-bomb casings that were about to be offered for sale as scrap. There among the rejects he found the missing bomb...
...Monday's Dump Truck on the 1969 strike was, I thought, excellently written and, more important, a well-timed reminder. The '69 strike certainly should not be for gotten. But why insist on the contrast between the activism of the late sixties and the apathy and self-centeredness of the present, as in the article "Freshmen Know Little About Strike" in the same issue of The Crimson? Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times do enough of that, with their constant harping on streaking, pre-meds and apathy. True, these things exist, but the picture is not that simple...
Harry Truman's ascension to the Presidency was the result of a series of coincidences. He headed a routine Senate investigation concerning national defense preparedness and munitions industries that uncovered major scandals which catapulted him into national prominence. Thus when President Roosevelt found it necessary to dump Henry Wallace from the Democratic ticket in 1944, Truman emerged as a compromise choice for Vice-President. Three months after he took office, F.D.R.'s death placed Truman in the White House. Yet in spite of this accidental assumption of the office, many historians, such as Clinton Rossiter and Arthur M. Schlesinger...
While about 300 demonstrators rallied on the green about 100 yards from the front of the Harvard Club, another 100 stood across the street from the club, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford" and "Gerald Ford: You can't hide. You committed genocide...
When the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation closed its asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas, two years ago, it did an unusually thorough job of cleaning up after itself. Some 60 workers spent a week scraping asbestos waste from machinery and depositing it in a nearby dump. Then another crew took over. Ceilings and walls were steam cleaned. Every piece of equipment in sight was scrubbed down; some machinery was disassembled and shipped to P.C.C.'s home office in Pittsburgh. What was left was cut up and buried. When the crew finished, all that remained of the plant were two dilapidated...