Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth-savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this...
...great goal of the airmen is to devise an automatic landing system that will work 100% of the time, whatever the weather, and eliminate the cause of more than half of all fatal crashes. The British are building a computerized autopilot that brings the plane right down to the deck; theoretically, it would fail only once in 1.25 billion landings, but even that is too much for U.S. airmen. Ultimately, computers will control all flight patterns, analyze the weather, and do much of the work in takeoffs and landings. The computers are not smarter than man; they simply solve...
...time has come for doctors to reflect on it, says the A.M.A., because the entrenched practice can be fatal. The University of Minnesota's Dr. Justin J. Wolfson recently reported a case in which an eight-day-old baby died because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
...FATAL IMPACT by Alan Moorehead. 230 pages. Harper...
Spies who become famous usually find it fatal. Richard Sorge, the shadowy Soviet mastermind of one of the most daring and successful espionage rings in history, was no exception. Although Russia made him a Hero of the Soviet Union, named a Moscow street and a tanker in his honor, and only last year issued a commemorative stamp (4 kopeks) bearing his likeness, Sorge was not around to take bows. The Japanese hanged him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison...