Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-speed aircraft and jet engines just cannot cope with birds. In the U.S., the annual total of aircraft-bird collisions now exceeds 1,600, some of them resulting in injuries and even fatal crashes. The Air Force alone estimates that it spends about $5,000,000 per year to repair aircraft surfaces battered or even pierced by the high-velocity impact of large fowl; it costs another $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 to repair or replace jet engines that have been damaged by ingested birds. But scientific help is on the way for aircraft-as well...
Sorry, French wonks and sports fans. The movie concerns a lady who takes one too many lovers, the fatal lover her stepson. That plot may be the plot of La Curee. But Vadim's treatment of the lady is highly un-Zolaesque. He doesn't condemn her as an unfortunate being who, because she slipped off the straight and narrow, can only slither around miserably. His treatment isn't an indictment. It's a celebration...
...Guard excesses. "You often try the leaders at kangaroo courts," he said. "On the death of Chang Lin-chih, minister for the coal industry, my mind is not at rest. He suddenly died-after a trial that lasted 40 days." Chou chewed out the Guards for other, less fatal outrages-against the minister for railroads, the minister for agricultural land reclamation and the minister for commerce, one Yao Yilin. "I have had to order him to take a rest," said Chou. "I understand you have issued a warrant for his arrest. Such a warrant amounts to one for the arrest...
...Peripherally involved"? The film shows interviews with the closest spectator to the limousine when the fatal shot was fired, vith three railroad employees who viewed the assassination from the railroad bridge just in front of and above the limousine, with the former Dallas police officer who saw Ruby enter the basement just before he killed Oswald, with a witness to the scene of the Tippit killing who indicates that two men may have been involved in that murder, with the photographer who took motion pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender...
...Klein offered two warnings. Doctors must not use the cancer-killing ointments until they are sure just what form of the disease they are dealing with. The ointments do no good against melanoma, for example, and their misuse could lead to fatal neglect of this highly malignant cancer. Nor should they be used on the patient with a single, isolated basal or squamous cell carcinoma, because these cases are treated more effectively, and more simply, by X rays or surgery...