Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement, "Flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots" [Aug. 5] is misleading. Physicians with better-than-average incomes have high-performance aircraft, fly more than other groups, and therefore have greater exposure to accidents. Even so, members of the Flying Physicians Association, numbering 2,000 (about half the known U.S. and Canadian physician pilots), have an accident rate approximately the same as the average. We believe that our requirements of certification of higher aviation skills, such as basic instrument ability as a requirement for membership renewal, result...
...ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...
...will the long coats-but not yet," said the Ohrbach buyer. "His timing is off." Said Bonwit's buyer, gazing at the long coats: "We're not ready for that sort of thing." For the British, the hemline dropped like a bomb. "It would be fatal!" cried one British designer. "I've just made my spring collection-all short. Shops have just ordered their autumn stock-all short." Protested a Bond Street fashion buyer: "The leggy feeling is still strong, and nobody is going to accept a drastic change...
...shun unnecessary risks, doctors seem to jettison their own advice as soon as they take up flying. In 1964-65, reports the Federal Aviation Agency, 30 U.S. physician pilots died in crashes; in ten cases, the doctors' families died with them. As a result, flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots...
California, which leads the nation with 250,000 registered cycles, compiled a grisly record in 1965 with 263 fatal accidents (some involving more than one death) for motorcycles and 13 for scooters. Ironically, the accident rate is lower on California's roaring freeways than at the low speeds of snaking mountain roads or intersections of Los Angeles' labyrinthine streets. In New York City, the very density of traffic slows cycles to a crawl and lowers the accident rate still further. Wet pavements are even worse on two wheels than on four: San Francisco makes its motorcycle cops dismount...