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Avarice. But changing attitudes toward psychiatry have resulted in changing doctrines in the courts. In a case that became a legal milestone, a ski-lift attendant failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...
Coney Island's biggest addition for 1963 is Astroland, a $3,000,000 fun-and-games nexus devoted to space exploration. It has the Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double...
Simple Christians today, we still repudiate this name that the bigoted have tried to fasten...
...much to do with KLM's health as with his own. Caught in the familiar jet-age squeeze between expensive planes and too few passengers. KLM lost $21 million in 1961 and another $14 million in 1962's first nine months. Such financial turbulence made everyone fasten seat belts in KLM's executive suites. One group of entrenched, old-line KLM executives argued that despite the economic headwinds, the line should continue to expand and even resume its service to Indonesia. A more moderate faction, with which Van der Beugel apparently sympathized, favored cutting back...
Jouncing along in turbulent air at 28,000 ft., the Paris-to-Rome Caravelle jet flew into a vicious downdraft over the Apuane Alps, plummeted sickeningly before the pilot regained control. A stewardess was knocked unconscious and six passengers who had failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily...