Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under these circumstances, my father, with the full knowledge that incarceration would in all probability be fatal, and with the full knowledge that his sense of honor had been trodden upon by judicial acts he felt were unjust, took his own life...
Rabies is a disease that demands superlatives. Once it develops, it is invariably fatal. But it is completely preventable. The World Health Organization reported last week that Norway has had no case in animal or man since 1809, Australia since 1867, Britain since 1922. In 1959, the U.S. had five deaths through November. Prevention requires two rigorous steps: destruction of every rabid animal, followed by strict quarantine to keep the disease out. (Vaccination of pets is a valuable added precaution...
...Newell: "The hand should be in the shooter's face to disconcert him; the other arm should be extended almost parallel to the floor to deflect passes. We condition arm muscles so that the arms can be held up over protracted lengths of time. In boxing, it is fatal to drop your hands; the same is true in basketball." Newell runs practice games at both fast and slow speeds: "We want to use tempo as a weapon, make the other team play the game we can play better than they can. We make them play at a speed they...
...modern pushbutton war will become so swift and complex that only computers can think fast enough to make its strategic decisions. They will train themselves by playing war games, as human generals do now, and will figure out more quickly than humans when it seems necessary to push the fatal buttons. But Wiener does not trust the motives of even the brightest war-making machine. "If the rules for victory in a war game," he says, "do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it .is more likely that such a machine may produce a policy which...
While jet-powered 1959 ranked as U.S. commercial aviation's best year in terms of technological advance, it went down as the worst in terms of safety. A record 294 passengers and crew members were killed in nine fatal crashes of scheduled U.S. passenger planes last year. Counting cargo, nonscheduled and training flights, there were 18 fatal accidents, with 329 deaths. On scheduled flights, the fatality rate jumped from .38 per 100 million passenger miles in 1958 to .73 in 1959, highest since 1952. The only bright note was that scheduled pure jets had no fatal mishaps (but there...