Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arctic. As such, he, and they, were engaged in giving the free world the warning it must have if it is to protect itself from Russian attack, and the shield of intelligence it must have if it is to seek peace without the danger of being lured into a fatal trap...
Last week aircraft experts were prepared to release a report telling of a "million-to-one shot" where scientists think St. Elmo's fire proved fatal. The plane: a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation that took off into a stormy Italian sky last June 26 from Milan, bound for New York, and crashed twelve minutes later, killing all of the nine crew members and 59 passengers aboard...
...little less hair-raising. California's Go Kart Club of America and Florida's Grand Prix Kart Club of America have both set up rigorous standards for their races. The Go Kart Club does not allow anyone under 16 to race, claims it has never had a fatal accident in an authorized race. So does the Grand Prix, though its rules permit six-year-olds to race karts held down to 30 m.p.h. and twelve-year-olds to compete in the karts that will turn 85 m.p.h. What both clubs fear is the unsupervised novice who spins around...
...Blasingame (.289) who should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year...
...woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...