Word: esses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like every other U.S. manufacturer, General Motors confronts a new legal threat called "strict liability" - the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries without being proved guilty of negligence in the manufacturing proc ess (TIME, Aug. 6). Strict liability lurks behind hundreds of pending suits that claim that the rear axle of G.M.'s 1960-1963 Corvairs caused oversteering and sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended...
...Hong Kong, en route home, the leader of a Nigerian delegation to a Peking science conference said that he was told that Chou En-lai was "on a holiday." As evidence that Chou is not in disgrace or about to be purged, his wife, Teng Yingchao, was official host ess last week to the wives of a visiting Cambodian delegation, and Chou's name recently appeared in its proper official order in a congratulatory cable sent to Ho Chi Minh in honor of the 19th anniversary of North Viet Nam's independence...
...series of craters blasted by both chemical and nuclear explosives in the Nevada desert. The first, called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest cratering shots, Sedan (100 kilotons) and Danny...