Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed to a fatal flaw of the W.J.T.: its lack of focus. "A newspaper should have a distinctive personality," said New York Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel. "It doesn't matter who runs it so long as it is commanded by a single intelligence and a single concept." Other than that, it does not have to be a newspaper in the traditional sense. "It could be a vastly smaller operation with a different philosophy and outlook," says one publisher. "I've always thought that there was a place in New York for another highbrow newspaper," says Walter Lippmann...
...high temperatures of reentry. If Soyuz was indeed tumbling upon reentry, as many U.S. experts believe, its unshielded surfaces would also have been exposed to the direct frictional effects of the atmosphere. As these surfaces began to burn up, temperatures in the spacecraft cabin would quickly have reached fatal levels...
Eczema afflicts nearly half a million U.S. children under six - a statistic that can have serious consequences at vaccination time. An eczematous child inoculated against smallpox with the standard cowpox-virus vaccine may develop a severe and possibly fatal combination of cowpox and eczema known as eczema vaccinatum. Now the University of Colorado's Dr. C. Henry Kempe has resolved the conflict between the child's safety and the requirement for preschool vaccination...
Though rarely fatal, the sun-induced cancers often require surgical removal. In all, estimates Dr. Wilson, "thirty percent of the practice of dermatologists is treating skin changes that have been brought about by sunlight...
Drivers of independent trucks use bennies to stay awake and make longer runs, but major fleet operators sternly forbid them. When amphetamine stimulation wears off, it may do so abruptly and put the driver to sleep at 60 m.p.h. In several fatal accidents, highway police have found a half-emptied bag of bennies in the driver's pocket, and autopsies have revealed as many as a dozen in a driver's stomach. With severe overdosage, though the driver stays awake, he may have hallucinations and see "ghosts" on the highway, with equally fatal results...