Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just three-quarters of a mile from the spot where, last month, a flaming C46 crashed and killed 56 passengers, the Convair had nosed over into a fatal dive. After skimming a girls' high school, one wing sliced into a three-story brick building and spun the plane into a two-family frame house. Blazing gas spewed over the neighborhood. Choking black smoke billowed up to thicken the fog. All 23 passengers, including former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and crew members were killed. In the muck and charred ruins, Elizabeth (pop. 112,675) counted...
...horizontal tail. All the necessary controls except the rudder, they say, can be built into its trailing edge. And a fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish...
Stories about a fatal kind of "battle shock" with no visible injury have caused further medical confusion. "There was a great haroosh in World War I about men showing all these symptoms but with no injury," he says, "so we looked for such cases in World War II. We never found one. Perhaps later examination showed that the man had had a brain concussion, or died from carbon monoxide produced by the bomb. So-called 'pure shock' may exist, but I haven't seen it. To me, so far, it's a bogy...
Caught in time, cancer need not be fatal. Two who survived were in the news last week...
...racing must have two prerequisites: skill - and courage. It takes courage to use skill, or to use it to that utmost which wins races. A watch-tick moment of bad judgment, a split second of uncontrol can send a downhill racer flying off the beaten track at a fatal 60 m.p.h. clip...